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Posted by Scott Tribe on November 5, 2009, at 11:08 am |
Bill C-391 is of course the “private members bill” to scrap the long-gun registry that passed 2nd reading last night in the House. I will reiterate that I never believed this to be a true “private members bill” to begin with (I’ve read from news reports that the PMO was handing out talking points to every Conservative MP on Wednesday – when was the last time with a private member’s bill that a Prime Minister’s Office was issuing standard talking points to its MP’s on it? Never, I would assert), and that Ignatieff and Layton on the opposition side should have recognized that and whipped their caucus on this [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on April 2, 2009, at 9:33 am |
On hearing yesterday that the Conservatives had decided once again to try to kill the long-gun registry, I was going to do a blogpost imploring Ignatieff not to let this obvious attempt to placate the Conservatives base pass. However, I thought I’d wait to see what Ignatieff had to say on this, and I’m encouraged this morning by what he did have to say:
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff last night pledged to defeat efforts by the Conservative government to scrap the controversial long-gun registry. “We won’t let him,” vowed Ignatieff, speaking of moves by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government in the Commons, and yesterday in the Senate, to end [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on September 8, 2008, at 3:21 pm |
I haven’t seen this yet in the media in my quick scan of headlines (though I expect it will be soon) but I saw this press release from the Liberals that should resonate in many urban centres across Canada. The Liberals will ban military assault weapons and add them to the prohibited weapons list if elected, which was very appropriately announced by Dion at Dawson College, the scene of a tragic shooting of a young girl in 2006:
Mr. Dion at an event at Dawson College (said) “Military assault weapons have no connection to hunting or sport shooting, and serve absolutely no purpose in our society. No one outside [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on December 2, 2007, at 11:46 am |
Everyone knows that the Conservatives hate the gun registry and would do away with it tomorrow if they had the chance (and the numbers in Parliament). If you’ve read up on their advisory board on firearms, you would also know its filled with pro-gun people and those with ties to the gun industry here and in the US.
Their mission – and Stock Day’s mission and the Cons. mission – is to weaken laws where licensing is involved or where tracking guns and who owns them is involved. They are paranoid to the extreme about this – to the point where they’ve shelved a regulation that would allow [...]
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