To no one’s surprise, a report on the gun registry had no information to add on the massive cost overruns. Reports and studies that say nothing are a Liberal legacy.
Breitkreuz said the KPMG report failed to answer key questions. “It’s obviously a waste of taxpayers’ money because there’s nothing in this report that explains anything.”
My new favorite Globe columnist, Maggie W., on the registry.
In other words, I’m a completely typical educated urban female, and the Liberals know that people like me now outnumber people who belong to rod’n’gun clubs.
The only trouble is the evidence.
The evidence is that Canada’s traditional gun culture is among the most benign in the world. It’s Mark Trail, not Rambo. The problem the Liberals’ gun registry was devised to fix does not exist.
Hope all the female liberals who have driven this law are reading.
When a Canadian government wants to obfuscate, it studies it and the study leads to spending more money on the problem.
The federal government is determined to keep its national firearms registry in place and will spend another $92,000 on an outside consultant to find ways to clean up the troubled system, says Justice Minister Martin Cauchon.
The new spending, announced today, will fund a study aimed at “streamlining” the registration process and improving its efficiency. …Another $62,000 was previously announced for a separate review by accounting firm KPMG. That study will look at internal financial systems and controls at the registry, which has suffered massive cost overruns since its inception in 1995.
From this same article, Ottawa’s police chief thinks:
But Ottawa police chief Vince Bevan, speaking for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, welcomed Cauchon’s decision to press ahead.
“If this legislation saves even one life it will have proven its worth,” said Bevan.
Is this guy a moron? Spending a billion dollars that we don’t have to save one life is worth it? What if we use that billion dollars and save 10,000 lives? Wouldn’t that make more sense?
The only chief of police making sense on this issue is Toronto’s – the city where the shootings take place daily.
8 provinces are now against the registry and its mega cost. What will it take for the Feds to give up?
Emboldened by their swelling ranks, justice ministers from all but two provinces were calling on Ottawa yesterday to halt operations at the national gun registry, as the program increasingly becomes an outlet for pent-up provincial exasperation over federal profligacy.
Toronto Sun Letter writers are among the best:
TAKE MURDEROUS gangs, a thriving black market in high-powered weaponry, dull-minded incompetents posing as leaders, a sorely undermanned police force gagged and bound by political correctness, hordes of bleeding-heart excuse-mongers, destabilizing immigration policies, a soft-headed non-deterrent approach to felonies and misdemeanours, and a populace nursed to limp dependency by a nanny state. Mix well in the Toronto area. Voila! A city sans future.
Gene Summers
(Gee, happy new year to you, too, sunshine!)
Levant on Ottawa’s new growth industry.
Canada’s billion-dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats, who spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers.
The hypocrisy continues with regard to natives and also the gun registry.
Aboriginals account for just 3% of Canada’s population, yet commit 25% of this country’s murders. It wouldn’t be illogical, then, for any federal gun control effort to focus on this small group of people. Instead, our Liberal government has done all it can to exempt natives from the standard provisions of the Firearms Act.
Can this gun registry fiasco be the achilles heel of this miserable Liberal government? Something has to give!
CNEWS Canada – Nfld. calls for gun program suspension – yet another province is calling for a suspension, if not end, of the billion dollar boondoggle known as the gun registry.
Newfoundland’s justice minister says the federal gun registration program should be shut down until Ottawa can come to terms with its massive cost overruns.
Kelvin Parsons said Monday that Ottawa shouldn’t “bulldoze ahead” with the registry until it figures out what went wrong.
