Why Tories won't kill gun registry
Newsbot @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:51 am
Title: Why Tories won't kill gun registry
Category: Political
Posted By: DerbyX
Date: 2009-03-24 08:48:34
Canadian
DerbyX @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:51 am
$1:
If Conservatives listened to their own rhetoric – and weren't hunting eastern, swing and urban voters – shooting the gun registry would have been a first-term priority. If they believed in protecting the public purse, then the Prime Minister wouldn't be asking for $3 billion to spend behind closed doors. If accountability was more than a slogan, parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page wouldn't be fighting for the independence and funding necessary to do his job.
No surprise here.
bootlegga @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:56 am
DerbyX DerbyX:
$1:
If Conservatives listened to their own rhetoric – and weren't hunting eastern, swing and urban voters – shooting the gun registry would have been a first-term priority. If they believed in protecting the public purse, then the Prime Minister wouldn't be asking for $3 billion to spend behind closed doors. If accountability was more than a slogan, parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page wouldn't be fighting for the independence and funding necessary to do his job.
No surprise here.
No doubt.
RUEZ @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:00 am
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Nothing is ever quite as it appears in federal politics. Take, for example, the cosy relationship between guns and Conservatives.
That's as far as I have to go to know this article is BS partisanship. At least they put it in the first sentence and saved me the reading.
Arrow @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:02 am
Which just goes to show that the latest iteration of the Tories is no different from their predecessors. It's all about the office, not the ideology.
hurley_108 @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:11 am
Probably the same reason they won't bring out a senate reform package either - they like campaigning on it too much to acutally do it.
DerbyX @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:12 am
RUEZ RUEZ:
$1:
Nothing is ever quite as it appears in federal politics. Take, for example, the cosy relationship between guns and Conservatives.
That's as far as I have to go to know this article is BS partisanship. At least they put it in the first sentence and saved me the reading.Yet the truth is that despite everything the CPC simply has put forth no effort to scrap the registry no matter how much they blame the Liberals.
Robair @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:38 pm
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Where parties stand in Ottawa depends on where they sit in the Commons.
No doubt.
ridenrain @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:42 pm
This is an editorial, and a dumb one at that.
Arrow @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:03 pm
Kind of like another one that was posted today
Zipperfish @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:07 pm
While I wasn't a fan of Harper, I consoled myself that at last he get rid of the gun registry and crack down on violent crime. Even I, as a left-winger, think the courts have grown too lenient, at elast for violent crimes. Au contraire. Vancouver is in the middle of a gang war that results in daily shootings on the street. Harper seems more interested in the internal goings-on of China though.
bootlegga @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:10 pm
ridenrain ridenrain:
This is an editorial, and a dumb one at that.
You know more about posting dumb editorials than anyone else at CKA...got any others you want to post again?
Robair @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:16 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
While I wasn't a fan of Harper, I consoled myself that at last he get rid of the gun registry and crack down on violent crime. Even I, as a left-winger, think the courts have grown too lenient, at elast for violent crimes. Au contraire. Vancouver is in the middle of a gang war that results in daily shootings on the street. Harper seems more interested in the internal goings-on of China though.
I think they've come up with some pretty good stuff re crime a punishment. Manditory sentances for firearm offences etc.But I am dissapointed that we still have a long gun registry. The article makes a couple of valid points.
2Cdo @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:20 pm
With a minority government he doesn't stand a chance at eliminating the long gun registry so why would he table it? None of the opposition MP's would dare support the motion for fear of being tossed from the party. You people are comparing the actions of a Conservative minority government with the actions of a Liberal majority government. Not really a fair comparison is it?
The opposition parties of the Bloc and NDP have, on more than one occasion, stated they would vote against Conservative motions before even knowing the details of the motion! But they expect Stephen Harper to be more accomodating!
Zipperfish @ Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:28 pm
Robair Robair:
I think they've come up with some pretty good stuff re crime a punishment. Manditory sentances for firearm offences etc.
But I am dissapointed that we still have a long gun registry. The article makes a couple of valid points.
But I am dissapointed that we still have a long gun registry. The article makes a couple of valid points.
Not a fan of the long gun registry myself. And I'd love to see mandatory sentences for firearms offences. I'm a little fed up up with these guys wiht a dozen wepons offences on their resumes strutting around Mewtro Vancouver.