LIBERALS OPPOSED TO THE GUN REGISTRY

LIBERALS OPPOSED TO THE GUN REGISTRY
Date: Nov 28, 2006 4:18 PM
• Michael Ignatieff (Etobicoke-Lakeshore) also favoured revisiting the issue of gun control, saying the registry was a useful tool for police, but he didn’t want to see an infringement on the rights of gun owners. (Kenora Daily Miner and News, August 4, 2006)

• “The gun registry, it’s a disaster, it’s a living, breathing scandal, it has cost 1.2 billion dollars” – Jean Lapierre (Outremont) (TQS News, March 3, 2003).

• “Even if it will cost more than a billion dollars, it’s a mess, the system doesn’t work” – Jean Lapierre (CKAC 730, March 3, 2003).

• “We should be getting rid of the long-gun registry. A billion dollars would have been better spent on health care or education or, for instance, in strengthening the RCMP” – Scott Brison (Kings-Hants) (Halifax Daily News, February 2, 2003)

• “As a mother, I am scared by gun violence. I would stiffen the penalties for crimes involving guns. What I would not do is to penalize law-abiding farmers and hunters who use firearms as a tool. While strengthening gun control, I would scrap the gun registry and use the money to fight against illegal guns and drugs.” – Belinda Stronach (Newmarket-Aurora) (National Post, January 21, 2004)

• Larry Bagnell (Yukon) says he supports the Conservatives' announcements regarding the beginnings of their effort to repeal the gun registry. (Whitehorse Daily Star, May 23, 2006)

• Roger Valley (Kenora) said he supports the Conservative government's plans for the Canadian Firearms Centre. "I will vote with the Conservatives to get rid of the long-gun registry," the Liberal said. (Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, May 26, 2006)

• "I'm inclined to vote against the long-gun registry because I don't believe it has been as effective as the original intent had claimed it would be.” – Wayne Easter (Malpeque) (Charlottetown Guardian, July 25, 2006)

• Ken Dryden also said that while he doesn't personally approve of guns, millions of dollars have already been spent on gun-control legislation, so the government must now determine if it is worth the expense and if it actually works. ``Is it a useful investment? If it isn't, get rid of it,'' he said. (Lethbridge Herald, CP, September 14, 2006)

• "Criminals and those who wish to do harm by firearms will always find ways of getting firearms." - Paul Steckle (Huron-Bruce) (National Post, March 10, 2005



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