Saturday, February 07, 2009

Conservatives to revive gun registry debate?

While they vehemently campaigned against the gun registry in opposition, in government the Conservatives have done nothing to attempt to eliminate it. Hints now that may be about to change (from CP):

Harper told reporters during a whirlwind visit to Miramichi that local gun registry jobs are safe, despite his goal of eliminating the program.

More than 200 people work at the Miramichi firearms registry where the main processing centre is located.

Harper said a debate on the registry will happen in the near future, but jobs will not be lost.

``The Conservative party for a long time now has been committed to the abolition of the long gun registry, we are very clear about that,'' Harper said while visiting a hockey rink.

Can't find the CP coverage online yet, but the CBC has a report on the event that makes the plan to revive the debate seem more hypothetical.

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6 comments:

Robert McClelland said...

I expect we're going to see the Conservatives revive quite a few of their dormant populist issues in an attempt to rally the disgruntled base and distract people from the economy.

Gayle said...

The gun registry provided a key piece of evidence in the investigation of the two men convicted in the Mayerthorpe Mounties case.

Tom said...

Maybe they are reviving a few dormant populist issues because that is what people elected them to do.
Don't the Liberals have any populist issues they were elected to pursue or do they just forget them when they are elected.

Robert McClelland said...

Maybe they are reviving a few dormant populist issues because that is what people elected them to do.

Hah, good one.

The Rat said...

Well,if it cost $100,000,000 million to implement I'll happily pay $30,000,000,000 in order to get it gone.

ziffer said...

Give him a chance, he's just getting those idiot monkeys off his back after the budget.
Unfortunatly the Conservative Party has a minority government and Harper has to play his cards right in dealing with the Lieberals.
All us Pro Gun Rights advocates will be watching closely.