I’m pretty sure the Canadian Taxpayers Federation won’t mind me reprinting the email newsletter they sent out today, which I’m doing because they’re BANG! on, on this issue.
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And for the record, I will repeat my oft-repeated proudypants show-off tale of real Canadian-ness: Me and my wife are both licensed to possess and acquire long guns and restricted handguns, including yummy semi-automatic handguns, having taken the courses and passed four practical and written tests (we both got 98% or higher in all the tests with one embarrassing exception, sort of, which is sort of related to the Beretta semi-automatic handgun as seen at left).
Best Shot Yet at Long Gun Registry
DEMAND A FREE VOTE ON BILL C-391MP Candice Hoeppner’s Private Member’s Bill C-391 to kill the long gun registry will be voted on November 4. We need your help to demand that party leaders allow a free vote and MPs pass this bill.
It was a long path just to get here. In the spring of this year, MP Garry Breitkreuz’s Private Member’s Bill to abolish the long-gun registry – Bill C-301 – was scheduled to go before Parliament for debate. Your CTF urged all party leaders to allow for a free vote on the bill. Regrettably, a few measures in the bill raised concerns for some opposition MPs. So, to gain opposition support, the Harper government introduced a competing bill in the Senate: Bill S-5.
Bill S-5 would have transferred responsibility for the long-run registry onto the provinces. This raised the genuine risk of a patchwork of expensive and burdensome registries across the country. Such a plan, understandably, failed to gain support from the crowd traditionally supportive of ending the wasteful long-run registry.
We can’t shoot down wasteful spending without some ammo. Please give a donation of just $20 to help the CTF take aim at mismanagement.Rather than giving up, however, proponents of ending this wasteful program came up with another plan. Candice Hoeppner, M.P. for Portage-Lisgar in Manitoba, stepped forward with a new Private Member’s Bill – C-391 – that focuses solely on scrapping the long-gun registry. It should, therefore, be more acceptable to a borader range of MPs. The bill, which was seconded by Breitkreuz, is on the Order Paper and will be debated this Fall.
Take ActionThe long-gun registry has been a wasteful fiasco from inception through execution. Taxpayers may finally get satisfaction with the passage of Ms. Hoeppner’s Bill C-391.
Click here to find your MP’s contact information and let him or her know you want them to support this bill.
Although the Conservatives have consistently stated their opposition to the long gun registry, the other parties have not. It is crucial that opposition MPs be given the opportunity to vote freely and not along party lines. Click the names of the following leaders to find out their contact info or use the email address provided. Tell them to give their MPs the freedom to support this bill.
Stephen Harper, Conservative: [email protected]
Michael Ignatieff, Liberal: [email protected]
Jack Layton, New Democratic: [email protected]
Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Quebecois: [email protected]Finally, click here to sign the CTF petition to end the gun registry.
Together, we can make a difference. Stand up! Be Heard!
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