Quebec should create its own gun registry if the federal registry is
scrapped, the opposition Parti Québécois said Wednesday as the House
of Commons voted in support of a private member’s bill calling for
abolition of the national long-gun registry.
Quebec’s national assembly unanimously passed a motion urging Ottawa
to preserve the national firearms registry.
Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis said he had written to his
federal counterpart, Peter Van Loan, and to representatives of the
three Commons opposition parties on Tuesday night asking them to
oppose the bill.
But Conservative MPs, bolstered by a handful of Liberals and New
Democrats, produced a majority giving approval in principle Wednesday
to killing the registry. Tory MPs roared their approval as the vote on
Bill C-391 was read out in the Commons: 164 for, 137 against. The bill
now goes to committee for examination.
PQ intergovernmental affairs critic Alexandre Cloutier said the
effectiveness of the registry has been eroded by the Harper
government. He said most guns are no longer registered because of
repeated moratoriums enacted by Ottawa.
Dupuis said the registry has become a crucial tool for police.
'When the police are called to a home for domestic violence, let's
say, they can know in advance if there is a gun in the house.'
—Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis“As an example, when
the police are called to a home for domestic violence, let's say, they
can know in advance if there is a gun in the house.”
But the Liberal minister said a Quebec-only registry would not be
effective because guns can easily cross provincial boundaries.
On Tuesday, Montreal police Chief Yvan Delorme issued a rare political
statement defending the registry.
Delorme said the registry helped prevent a potential crime following
the Dawson College shooting in 2007.
He said police received a report that another individual had been
making threats, and the registry alerted officers that this person
owned several guns, which officers seized.
The vote on the registry came barely a month ahead of the 20th
anniversary of an event that helped to inspire the creation of the
registry, Delorme noted.
On Dec. 6, 1989, gunman Marc Lépine stormed into the École
Polytechnique with a rifle, killing 14 female students and wounded 27
other people.
With files from The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/11/04/quebec-gun-registry-vote.html
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> $Assembly defends national registry
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> $Quebec should create its own gun registry if the federal registry is
> $scrapped, the opposition Parti Qu�b�cois said Wednesday as the House
> $of Commons voted in support of a private member�s bill calling for
> $abolition of the national long-gun registry.
Lets see. The Dawson College shooting happened on September
13, 2006.
Bill C-68, which created the current long gun registry,
received royal assent and became law in 1995.
In short, you stupid fuck, the long gun registry did
*nothing* to prevent one of the most serious shooting
incidents in Canadian history.
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John Fleming
Edmonton, Canada
Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O
With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,
Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP
Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
Faggot !!
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John C.
I guess he'll see you at the next circle jerking session.