[Brent Swain]

It looks like the long gun registry wil soon hit the scrap heap, where it has long belonged. With only two votes supporting it last year, it's days were definitley numbered. To bad they didn't get the message last time . If they had, it would be long gone by now, and wouldn't have been an issue in the last election. Thank god they are scraping the data base, so anyone promising to resurect it will have to be honest with Canadians, and admit it will cost over $2 billion to resurect, and will be as totally ineffective next time as it was this time.
A friend in Saskatchewan said the Conservatives were even further ahead of the NDP this time than they were last time. He said the voters were blaming the NDP for having saved the gun registry. Maybe that is one of the reasons the NDP flopped so badly in the provincial election there.
At any rate , if the gun registry is ancient history by the next federal election, and thus a non issue, maybe the NDP can start to rebiuld federally by the next election, possibly regaining some of their former strength in rural ridings. .
Had the gun registry scandal never been invented, the tories would have never made it to government. It has been a cash and volenteer generating machine for the tories since the reform party days.
Good riddance, may it be a long time before anyone tries it again. May voters memories be long.

[eureka]

Was that a typo, Brent? Only two votes.

In fact, a poll done last year showed that 66% of Canadians support the Gun Registry. A poll done for Right Wing media, btw, so let's not hear of bias. That means that the CPC is deliberately defying the strongly expressed will of the Canadian people including in the ridings that it won.

It is not the data base that Harper & co, are "scraping." Or scrapping. It is the bottom of the democratic barrel.

They are also wilfully throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars worth of data.

Their actions ought to be subject to criminal charge. I am sure that if Canada had an impeachment procedure for political dereliction, Harper would be on the rack.

[Dr Caleb]

eureka wrote:

They are also wilfully throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars worth of data.

Along with giving us our privacy and rights to not be arbitrarily searched and have out property seized back.

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