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GUN CONTROL:
The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.


DO YOU HAVE AN IRRATIONAL FEAR OF FIREARMS?
THEN YOU ARE "Hoplophobic"

HERE IS A DIRECT LINK  just for you TO THE HOPLOPHOBIA NEWS CENTRE
The above  link WILL NOT open a new window. It just sends you there
But, keep in mind, news items marked "author unknown" Are probably internally generated Bullshit.
Go read it while you wait for a response to your 911 "dial-a-prayer" call

FIREARMS QUICK FACTS
By Garry Breitkreuz, MP – Updated Feb. 7th, 2003



Ontario MP confuses gun licensing with registry

The Liberal Firearms Act
- Before 2003 -
"The National Symbol
of Liberal Waste"
If Allowed To Continue After 2003
"The National Symbol
of Liberal Arrogance"
The Canadian Police Association only 'SAYS' it Represents Police Officers on the street.
Here's what THOSE  Officers say about this Gun Registry Farce


ATTENTION ONTARIO BEAR HUNTERS & LAND OWNERS AFFECTED BY NUISANCE BEARS


The Nuisance Bear Review Committee, established by Minister of Natural Resources Jerry Ouellette to examine the issue of increasing numbers of nasty bears since the spring hunt was cancelled four years ago, started its work yesterday(January 29th). It's asking for public input. Interested parties can send in written comments by March 31 to Royal Poulin, Nuisance Bear Review committee, 3rd Floor North Tower, 300 Water St., Peterborough, Ont. K9J 8M5 or e-mail nuisancebear@mnr.gov.on.ca
Hard data and meaningful comments on bears are being sought, NOT rants about hunting them or not hunting them. Details are posted http://nuisancebear.mnr.gov.on.ca
THE  LATEST  NEWS
FOR FEBRUARY 2003
(Opinions & Comments in Blue are 'usually' Mine)
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Ding-dong, the registry's dead
(Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
Garry Breitkreuz is grinding his teeth. Across the Commons floor, Roger Gallaway is looking at the back of Justice Minister Martin Cauchon's head and wondering how long he can keep from laughing. It's the open secret on Parliament Hill - something so transparently obvious it could not escape the notice of a six-year-old, and something the Chretien government can never, ever admit to anyone. The gun registry is dead. Ding-dong, call for the coroner. Will Cauchon admit it before he asks the Commons to vote him another $172 million to keep the system on life-support? Unlikely. We're all waiting for Paul Martin's coronation, after all, and in the meantime the cabinet can't admit to the public that it just flushed $800 million down the toilet. (Why 'anyone' would register a long gun right now, is beyond comprehension anyway! This thing will be long gone by the 'next' deadline of June 30th, and why give the Liberals information they don't need, to be used against you the next time they try a stupid stunt like this. Now, when this thing has been finally shot in the head, it's time to look at some of the 'other' stupidity that goes along with it. Namely the ridiculous short barrel law. If they give me a licence, and trust me to own a handgun, what they hell would a .0393" difference in barrel length between a legal and a prohibited gun make? If anything, the shorter barrel is a much safer, less deadly, less accurate handgun than a current 'legal' restricted firearm.  And, the much higher level of skill required to shoot one accurately is part of the pride of ownership)
Cauchon in contempt over gun registry, says Alliance MP
The Canadian Alliance said yesterday Justice Minister Martin Cauchon is in contempt of Parliament for giving the media details about planned spending on the federal firearms registry a month before they are to be tabled in the Commons. Alliance MP John Williams, chairman of the public accounts committee, made the allegation after Mr. Cauchon's press secretary distributed the information to reporters when the government's spending estimates were tabled in the Commons the previous day.The government estimates referred only to a planned expenditure of $18 million on the firearms program, in the form of contributions to five provincial governments participating in the registry and licensing system. A separate news release from Treasury Board President Lucienne Robillard, and a more detailed release from Mr. Cauchon's department, identified $113 million to be spent on the program over the next year, bringing the totalspent on the registry and licensing system to $900 million by 2004.(And this includes 'yet another' computer system to replace the obsolete one they previously wasted millions of  taxpayer dollars on, obviously without proper consultation. As we all have become acutely aware folks, the Liberals feel they don't really 'have' to listen to anyone before they waste YOUR money.)
Let the registry die
Last December, Sheila Fraser, the Auditor-General, made a dire prediction. She said the cost of the federal government's gun registry would exceed $1-billion by 2005. Not even four months later, Ms. Fraser is poised to say "I told you so." In Parliament yesterday, Martin Cauchon, the Minister of Justice, asked for $172-million in new funding for the registry. Add that to the $800-million already eaten up by the program, and Ottawa is just $28-million from hitting the nine-zero barrier almost two years ahead of schedule. In the wake of the December revelations, we'd hoped the government might be so embarrassed that they'd cut their losses and shut the registry down. Indeed, Ms. Fraser's report forced the Liberals to deny a December request from Mr. Cauchon for $72-million in new funding. But as his $172-million request yesterday shows, Mr. Cauchon has not given up. Apparently, he's determined to throw good money after bad.(If this particular boondoggle does not show taxpayers just how fiscally incompetent these turkeys are, nothing will. It's totally incomprehensible that they can keep saying that the public supports them in this farce when PLAIN LANGUAGE polls show entirely the opposite, For example, the Globe & Mail poll of 15,906 readers to the Question:"Do you think the Liberals should increase funding for the gun registry program?" 84% answered NO! Their 'previous' poll of  20,438 readers to the question "What should Ottawa do with the gun registry program?" Resulted in 31% saying 'keep it', 9% saying 'suspend it' and 60% saying 'Scrap it'. It fly's in the face of logic to listen to the Liberals saying 'their' poll shows 74% of Canadian support the registry! They 'must' think Canadians in general, are pretty damn stupid!)
NO REAL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF GUN REGISTRY HAS EVER BEEN COMPLETED
“Government of Canada Regulatory Policy approved by Cabinet in 1999 has never been followed.” 
Today, Garry Breitkreuz, Official Opposition Critic for Firearms and Property Rights, released an exchange of letters between himself and Mel Cappe, former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet.  “It’s appalling that Parliament has been kept in the dark about the costs of the gun registry.  It’s even more appalling that Parliament has never been told if the benefits outweigh the costs as required by Cabinet-approved regulatory policies,” revealed Breitkreuz.“They’ve passed 43 Orders-in-Council since 1998 and a proper cost-benefit analysis has still not been done.” ("Orders-in-Council" have no place in a true democratic society! They amount to nothing more, than a dictatorial decree from the throne. In the case of c-68, most of these 'dictatorial decrees' can result in someone spending time in prison, and have no place in criminal code law! It would be absolutely fantastic to see the government fall on a firearms money bill. It would then be obvious to even the ignorant that keep voting for these incompetents, that the liberals have only their own personal agenda's in the forefront of Canadian politics. Previous examples have shown, that they are of little benefit to the Canadian People, unless they are shamed into keeping their election promises.. Truly a despicable government, and a world wide embarrassment for all Canadians)
Here we go again
Just this week, appearing before the Commons' public accounts committee, Justice Department officials claimed they were not required to provide a detailed cost breakdown on the registry because it did not meet the criteria of a "major Crown project." Excuse me? And consider this remark from deputy minister of Justice Morris Rosenberg: "In hindsight, could we have reported more information? Perhaps we should have. Hindsight is 20-20." There is no "perhaps". If the Liberals are as intent on continuing to pour money into this black hole as they seem, at the very least they must provide a detailed accounting of where the money is going. But the best news would be that they have decided to scrap the whole thing.(And the sooner the better)
World's tallest spire chosen for 9/11 site 
Buildings flanking the site will include a hotel, a memorial museum and a performing arts center with a 2,200-seat theater, possibly a new home for the New York City Opera that wants out of the acoustically inferior New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. The arts center would open out onto a grand open-air space called Sept. 11 Plaza. Offices and retail space will be connected with the memorial site by ramps. Although no reliable dollar estimate can be made of the cost of Libeskind's project, he said development of public spaces and reinforcement of the slurry walls should cost about $330 million and framework of the cultural buildings should cost about $800 million. Development of potential commercial and housing sites will fall to realtor Larry Silverstein, leaseholder of the World Trade Center site. The Libeskind plan calls for 8.6 million square feet of office space, 780,000 square feet of cultural space, and 1,750 apartments.The spire will rise above one of the glass-sheathed office buildings a symbolic 1,776 feet, 416 feet higher than the Twin Towers that were leveled by airplane attack by Muslim fundamentalist terrorist on Sept. 11, 2001. The architect, Daniel Libeskind, said its spiraling design topped by an antenna was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, which he first saw when he arrived in New York harbor as a youth with his Polish 'emigre` parents aboard the S.S. Constitution. (Why those silly buggers! Don't they ever stop to think, that for a paltry few hundred million more, they could have had a Liberal Bureaucrat Designed Gun Registry instead?)
 C-17 Section 5, Inexplosive Ammunition Components 
...Going..Going...Gone?
From Tony Bernardo CILA: They (Liberals) stated that they saw no reason this provision should be included in anti-terrorist legislation and asked Insp. Watson several times if he felt this legislation should be "stand alone" so it could be "defeated on its own merits".  He did not answer. After my presentation, I spoke with one of the Liberal M.P.s on the Committee and she just shrugged her shoulders and said, "what can I say".  I stated she could say they were going to remove this portion of the Bill and she said, "Oh, I think that's a given".(Reloaders Re-joice!!! Another bit of stupid Liberal legislation being put out with the trash..But wait a minute! What if some clumsy Liberal MP slips on an empty casing and injures him/her self.. Maybe we better hold the celebration until the final word!)
Backbench Liberals Enjoy 'Flexing' Their 'new' Muscles
According to Liberal sources, when the Government Whip's office phoned around to see if Liberals would support the government on the gun registry vote, some MPs replied: "The Prime Minister doesn't need me."The comments were a clear reference to a controversial statement made by Jean Chrétien last month, in which he told CanWest News Service that not running for re-election has given him political freedom. "I don't need anybody anymore," he said at the time. "I'm in a very good position. I never felt in a stronger position than I am right now because, you know, they can defeat me in the House and there's an election. It's the reality under our Constitution."(Hopefully, they 'keep' using their new-found power. Cauchons spending spree may very well be over. But will the trained seals in the backbench risk generating an election on this? I doubt it, 'Jean the Weasel' knows who all his lapdogs are! )
"Cash Management" Liberal Style
Both Mr. Williams and Tory Senator Lowell Murray, who chairs the Senate national finance committee, said it appears the government has, in fact, used a highly controversial accounting practice to keep the program running since December. The supplementary estimates note that $14-million "was advanced from the Treasury Board Contingencies Vote to provide temporary funding for this program."Mr. Williams said it appears more than a coincidence that $59-million and the $14-million contingency clause total $73-million, $1-million more than what Mr. Cauchon was denied in December. When asked if "this program" was a reference to the firearms program, Mr. Cauchon's spokesman referred questions to the Treasury Board. However, a Treasury Board official referred the question back to the Justice department. Parliamentary committees and the Auditor-General have criticized the government for misusing the contingencies fund, which is supposed to be for emergencies. Mr. Murray said if the fund was used to replace money refused by MPs, it would be a "fraudulent" abuse of Parliament.(It would seem that the "fraudulent abuse of Parliament" is common practice for Liberal governments. I can remember back when Turdeau's pack of  'tax-troughers' lost, and left office. The paper shredders were reported to be working overtime. But, I'm sure this government has invested in much larger machines. Is there a company called 'Cover your Ass Shredders Inc.'? Because no doubt their gonna need em!, and we're gonna end up paying for them!)
And the Liberal "Culture of Safety" Continues!
EDMONTON - Two armed men opened fire Wednesday inside the tiny trailer office of a used car lot, killing a 23-year-old man and injuring two others. A 20-year-old man was undergoing emergency surgery late Wednesday. The third victim, also 20, received a minor wound to his leg and was able to walk out of the office.(I guess we should all thank our lucky stars that the Liberals and their 'boondoggle', have spent a billion getting all those dangerous Duck Hunters under control! Now, if they could only find a way to control 'criminals' with guns, why we would be living in a frozen utopia!)
Latest cash request puts total near $1B
Justice Minister Martin Cauchon will ask Parliament today to approve roughly $170 million more in funding for the federal firearms registry, bringing total spending on the controversial scheme to nearly $1 billion. The move is aimed at paying bills that have been mounting since the government withdrew a funding request for the program last December, as well as for costs over the next year. Despite a reduction in anticipated spending for the last few months, the new funding requests are guaranteed to spark another round of heated debate in the Commons before MPs vote on the supplementary estimates as well as the main estimates. Liberal MP Roger Gallaway, one of several government backbenchers who staunchly oppose the firearms registry, said "anything is possible at this point" when asked if he intended to oppose the new funding requests. Mr. Gallaway earlier this month claimed that Mr. Cauchon had violated the privileges of all MPs by continuing the firearms program operations after the withdrawal of the funding request. Commons Speaker Peter Milliken rejected Mr. Gallaway's argument, saying that while the House agreed to withdraw the request, it did not agree to suspend the program. Mr. Cauchon has refused to say exactly how the Canadian Firearms Centre, a Justice Department branch that administers the program, has been supporting its operations since December. He has said only that the department is using an accepted system of "cash management" to run the system and indicated bills have been going unpaid until the last minute before they are due.(Only 'Liberal Speak' could remotely define 'Not Paying Your Bills' as "Cash Management"!! This is a money bill, the spineless Liberal backbencher 'will' support it, because if they don't it would be a non confidence vote and trigger an election. Not one of them will want to face the public with this farce hanging over their heads. They will just continue to dump your tax dollars into it, unless the vast majority taxpayers decide to invoke "Cash Management" on their tax bills.  Canadian simply don't have the guts to do this, and the Liberals know it. Just look at them laughing at you, all the way to the trough! If their smart, they will support only a portion of the 'request' thereby avoiding not only the non confidence vote, but the some of the incompetent money management accusations as well. This farce will continue to bleed money until 'someone' has the guts to shut it down, and revamp the entire law into something that could be effective in stemming the 'criminal' use of firearms, while not penalizing the law abiding. But, that will 'never' happen under this current Liberal Dictatorship!)
Gun-registry costs queried for years, auditor says
OTTAWA -- Parliamentarians of all stripes have been asking for more information about the costs of the federal government's gun registry for years, since the early days of the controversial program, Canada's Auditor-General says. "This committee has been very diligent in trying to get handle on the firearms program, almost from the very beginning," Sheila Fraser said after her first appearance before the Senate Committee on National Finance. "They had flagged this program quite early." The two public airings have combined to raise the temperature on the program, which opposition MPs have called the "billion-dollar boondoggle." The hearings have also revealed the level of anger within Liberal ranks. A number of Liberal MPs have criticized the program's cost overruns openly. Senator Cools said yesterday that she and other members of the committee have been trying to get clear information about the registry for years. "One begins to wonder if responsible government really does exist in this country."('Responsible government' vanished with the last election!. The Liberals say that the 'registration component' of  c-68 amount to only 35% of the program costs, but the figures don't support this. There is no  evidence anywhere in the world that registering firearms has made people safer. Registering firearms 'only' provide a list for unethical governments to eventually go out and confiscate legally owned property, such as the Liberals are trying to do with their so-called 'prohibited' handguns. A 105 millimetre barrel, according to the 'brains' at the CFC, is a "Saturday night Special" even though many are very expensive firearms, and a 106 mm barrel is perfectly legal! This is a .0393 " difference here folks! As the NFA says, "It doesn't have to make sense, it's government policy")
'Domestic ' Escalates to Swat Team 'GUN CALL' by Poor Registry Info
A man surrendered after a brief stand-off, after police were told there may be guns in a house. Police were told there were firearms in the home and the Hamilton Police emergency response unit were called. Neighbours and schools in the area were asked to keep people inside. At 10:25 a.m., contact was made with the male and he surrendered peacefully. Police found no firearms after a search.(Because the man apparently owned guns, this turned into a bone fide 'gun call' even though no guns were found. It's a very good job the guy did not come to the door with a 'broom' in his hand or he could have been shot! This case certainly highlights the fact that the 'registry' is useless, and has no idea 'where' guns might be. As a result, poor information may lead to the death of a person because, instead of a normal domestic call where a couple of cops show up and are well aware there 'may' be guns at any residence, has escalated by poor government information into a 'GUN CALL' first, and domestic disturbance second. Both can be a dangerous situation, but there is no benefit in escalating this by calling in a swat team, which would never have been called, if the government was not supplying inaccurate information! If a couple of cops had simply showed up at the door, would there even have been a 'stand-off'?)
Gun registry should have been more open, admits ministry
OTTAWA - The deputy minister of justice admitted yesterday his department could have been more forthright with Parliament as the cost of the federal firearms program ballooned by hundreds of millions of dollars after it took effect in 1998. "In hindsight, could we have reported more information? Perhaps we should have?" Morris Rosenberg told the committee. "Perhaps we shouldhave; hindsight is 20/20." During an explosive two-hour hearing, Liberal and Canadian Alliance MPs clashed several times as the Opposition accused the government of "misleading" Parliament over the cost of the licensing and registry system. The meeting was the first in a series for the public accounts committee, which plans to investigate concerns raised about the controversial program by Sheila Fraser, the Auditor-General, in her December report. Ms. Fraser found the program, which in 1995 was estimated to cost $2-million, has already cost close to $700-million and is on pace to exceed $1-billion by 2005. Ms. Fraser's report also said the government "kept Parliament in the dark" as costs rose.(Ooops sorry we goofed and blew a billion dollars.. It's not our Fault, we didn't know. This is their basic defence? The fact that NUMEROUS people and organizations told them in 1995 that what they were doing was unworkable, and going to cost over a billion dollars, everyone that opposed them were summarily dismissed and accused of   "Trafficking in in Fictions" The government knew very well what the costs would be, they were told! But did they Listen? Do they 'ever' Listen? The registry portion of this law is nothing but a political hot potato, consisting of a bunch of  expensive, 'feel good' legislation that does nothing to protect Canadians from criminals, and those who would use firearms to harm others. Their own internal publication has plainly stated "Risk to public Safety is mitigated through Licensing. - It is not a registration issue." Do they not read their own information? Obviously not! Should the Canadian Taxpayer dump MORE money into this black hole? Obviously not!! The Liberals feel they can dodge this bullet by handing the whole fiasco over the the Solicitor General, Wayne Easter, on a very appropriate date.  April 1st. better known as APRIL FOOLS DAY, in honour I suppose of the Liberal's opinion of the Canadian Taxpayer and Parliament in general!!)
The Liberals Plead Ignorance to the Rules of Parliament
(Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
OTTAWA -- The federal government didn't do anything wrong by hiding the ballooning costs of the gun registry, says the program's top bureaucrat. Deputy justice minister Morris Rosenberg said yesterday Canada's auditor general was wrong for criticizing the lack of transparency in the cost of the gun registry. "We thought we were reporting according to government guidelines," he told the Commons public accounts committee studying the gun registry's management. (You would think that the 'JUSTICE' Minister would know that Ignorance is never a defence..)
Terror threats fail to scare Canadians, poll finds
The survey indicates that 53 per cent of respondents feel a locked door is their best defence. Ontarians were the most security-conscious with 58 per cent saying they kept doors locked all the time, followed by British Columbians (55 per cent), Albertans (54 per cent) and Quebecers (53 per cent). Just 37 per cent polled in Atlantic Canada said they kept doors locked all the time. Other methods favoured included: electronic alarm systems (35 per cent); dogs (23 per cent); and firearms (11 per cent). Of those keeping a gun at home for security, 59 per cent said it is not loaded. The Jan. 21-26 telephone survey also found 84 per cent of respondents are not afraid to go out alone evenings or nights. Its margin of error is 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.(Ho Humm another telephone poll.. What I find somewhat amusing is, the Liberals say less than 10% of Canadians own firearms, yet this poll says 11% of Canadians keep a gun at home for security purposes(?) If, as the survey says, 59% of them keep it un-loaded. That's 1.57 million people that keep a loaded gun for security purposes.. feel lucky punk? Canadians are not scared of terror threats, because Canadians have lived in our safe little cocoon since the war of 1812, and as such, truly believe 'it can't happen here'. After all, Ignorance IS bliss! Unfortunately the primary victim of a terrorist attack in this country, will be our loss of innocents, due to the shock of vulnerability. This of course will cause the usual Liberal over reaction, and we will find ourselves living in a virtual police state, with the bulk of the controls on the people the government 'can' control! Guess who that's gonna be?)
CFC Facts & Fallacies
There are many real-life examples that show the gun control program is already working. In the summer of 2002, a search of the firearms registry allowed police to arrest a B.C. man and seize his three registered handguns after he threatened to kill those involved in his divorce proceedings, including his spouse, her lawyer and the judge. In June 2000, the firearms registry played a pivotal role in uncovering what is believed to be one of the largest firearm smuggling rings in North America, operating between Montreal, Toronto, and the United States. Nearly 23,000 firearms and prohibited components were seized.(In the FIRST case, handguns have been registered for almost 70 years, a billion dollar farce such as the one the feds are pushing would NOT have been needed. As for the "Pivotal Role"! Someone most likely called the registry, and they confirmed that like the other millions of guns used in crimes throughout Canada, the firearms found were not Registered!  For this, they wasted a Billion Dollars) 
Cauchon aims at new target
If Cauchon really wanted to endear himself to voters, he would have shut down a useless program that has siphoned nearly a billion dollars out of the federal treasury and produced no effective result. The overwhelming numbers of woundings and gunshot deaths occurring in this country are wrought by unregistered, illegal handguns, not by legally owned long rifles or shotguns. The politically motivated gun registration program went after the wrong people, didn't accomplish its goal and cost a king's ransom. Cauchon knows it's a waste of money; that's probably why he has taken such steps to distance himself from it.(People are 'truly' starting to pay attention to the billion dollar mess that Liberals laughingly call a gun control program. They had been told time and time again that it won't work, and the costs will be astronomical. Did they listen? NO. will they listen now? NO. Do YOU think they should be trusted with the purse strings of the country? Why certainly they should, providing of course, the strings have been safely removed from the purse, and they no longer have access to the contents!)
Garry Breitkreuz, MP (February 21, 2003) 
Mr. Speaker, today the Justice Minister’s announcement of an “Action Plan” to fix the gun registry is very much like sending the deck hands of the Titanic out with rolls of duct tape to fix the gaping gash in the side of the ship.  Except the Minister’s duct tape is made out of pure gold. The Minister’s Action Plan means that in a very few years Parliament will be debating a TWO BILLION dollar boondoggle.  This is because he failed to address the real problems in the legislation and in the registry itself. The Minister proudly proclaims that even with everything he announced today the gun registry is still going to cost $67 million a year. The Minister’s admission means that his great “Action Plan” is only going to save $5 million a year from the $72 million a year Mr. Hession’s report estimated the gun registry would cost without “streamlining”. But does anyone believe the Justice Minister’s estimates.  Take any one year and look at how much they forecasted to spend in the Main Estimates and then how much they actually spent. How can the Justice Minister claim he’s being transparent when he has been keeping Parliament in the dark for the last 11 weeks?  He was more open with the media this week when he admitted his “cash management” program consisted of  NOT PAYING HIS BILLS. (How can 'anyone' consider this government to be fiscally responsible? I suppose I could simply not pay my taxes this year, and call it "Cash Management" For some reason, the Liberals are pushing this, and it has NOTHING to do with public safety. Gun Control has ALWAYS been more about 'control' than 'guns')
New 'action plan' for gun registry
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Martin Cauchon is transferring responsibility for the controversial firearms program to the department of the Solicitor-General as part of a new "action plan" to improve the program. While Mr. Cauchon said he would soon release specific estimates of the program's cost, he conceded it will be in line with the amount laid out in a private-sector report done for his department that pegged the cost at $541.4-million over the next 10 years. Mr. Cauchon said yesterday the government's goal is to reduce the gun program's future gross cost from $113-million this year to approximately $67-million a year by 2008-09. However, Mr. Cauchon said he expects the cost of the program will increase over the next two years due to extra "transition" costs. The original $541.4-million estimate was contained in a report by former deputy minister Ray Hession. While it called for steep increases in licensing and registration fees to reduce costs, yesterday's action plan calls for the continuation of free Internet registration. (This could also be called 'Hot Potato' as it's quickly passed off to the next guy, or just another version of the old 'Shell Game'! Keep moving it from minister to minister, bureaucrat to bureaucrat, until keeping track of it will as impossible as the registration task itself. They have also, 'already' started deviating from the Hession plan they paid $90,000.00 for! Although, they say they are implementing the Hession Plan, there was nothing in the plan that called for totally shifting it to another ministry, under yet another minister! Just the fact that they are ready to dump another half a billion (their estimate, and we know how accurate they are!) into this farce, only reinforces their lack of communication. They Also say they have a 'new' poll that says 74% of people still support the idea of a registry, and 55% say this one should be fixed! One only has to wonder what kind of ambiguous question was asked in this poll, because every other one had the majority saying SCRAP the registry. The Canadian Police Association, and the Canadian Association of  Police Chiefs must STILL be totally out of touch with the officers they 'say' they represent. They, 'unbelievably' are still saying they support this mess. This HAS to make you wonder, what did the government bribe them with?)
Manley defends the indefensible
In his speech, Mr. Manley also defended the government's contentious gun registry and played down the fiscal troubles of the gun program, which is forecast to cost more than $1-billion. Mr. Manley also described the strongly worded report of Sheila Fraser, the Auditor-General, as being written in "colourful language" that would not have been appropriate had she been a corporate auditor. The oft-cited $1-billion in cost overruns was only "a prediction," he said, noting that all the registry's expenses had been passed by Parliament. He acknowledged the gun registry's finances involve some "big numbers," but said its goal of keeping tabs on every firearm in Canada is a worthy one.  "We're on the side of tougher gun control," Mr. Manley said. "But we've got to be tough-minded about [the finances]."("colourful language" that would not have been appropriate had she been a corporate auditor." ??? Mr. Manley, if this had been a 'corporate audit' the "colourful language" she used, would have been PALE compared to the language used by a corporate auditor toward a business venture that was supposed to cost 2 million and ended up over a billion.. The financial incompetence of your government is not only astounding, but exceeded only by the arrogance and stupidity of wasting THAT much money while still insisting that not only that the venture works, but is giving the taxpayers enough value to dump ANOTHER half a billion dollars into this cesspool of waste.. You Mr Manley are a true piece of work!!)
Government gun registry fix will take years, minister says
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Martin Cauchon outlined an "action plan" on Friday to address problems in the controversial gun registry program. INDEPTH: Implementing the Firearms Act - the rising cost But the savings of about $5 million a year won't start until 2008-09, and the costs will continue to rise for two more transition years, he said. Cauchon said the revamped registry will eventually cost $67 million a year. Canadian Alliance critic Garry Breitkreuz said, given the history of the registry, that the numbers were suspect. "Does anyone believe the justice Minister's estimates?" he asked. ( The Liberal Government and their paid shills, are the ONLY group in the entire country that thinks this 'registry' is of any use what-so-ever! And WOW a saving of  5 million a year to start in 2008! That's over twice what this entire farce was supposed to cost in the first place. They must think Canadians are incredibly stupid. And that stupidity will be confirmed if Canadians vote this bunch of incompetents back into office at the next election! )
 It's the good, the bad and the buff
(Edmonton Sun Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
An unofficial recruiting jingle for Canada's elite commando unit is calling for soldiers and police officers who "like to play with guns" and have "(Arnold) Schwarzenegger buns" to join the force. "Have you been waiting for your chance to kick some terrorism butt?" asks a gruff-voiced man who launches into a foot-stomping song. "In the Joint Task Force 2, we need good men like you. If you like to play with guns and have Schwarzenegger buns." The catchy jingle, which opens and ends with the familiar whistle of Clint Eastwood's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly movie theme, has been circulating through the Canadian Forces via e-mail. The song pokes fun at Canada's secret anti-terrorism force, and tells potential recruits that they can get more information by dialing 1-800-secrets. "You have to be in fighting shape, be able to take it on the chin. But hey, we're still Canadians, 40 pushups and you're in," the singer croons. (HA This is GREAT download it here It's the only place I could find it!)
Trim $1-billion or face cuts, ministers told
Ottawa — Finance Minister John Manley drew a line in the sand Wednesday, saying his cabinet colleagues will face a mandatory cut in their departmental budgets if they don't voluntarily chop enough low-priority spending to save $1-billion.Ms. Robillard, whose Treasury Board oversees federal resources, will be charged with cutting at least $1-billion in annual savings from non-statutory program spending. That pool of money, federal expenditures not mandated by legislation, accounts for less than 1.5 per cent of that spending. The government hopes that its reallocation plan will offset some of the harsh criticisms aimed at its dramatic increase in spending over the past three years. Opposition MPs, however, dismissed Mr. Manley's $1-billion reallocation plan as simply window dressing. "It was nothing more than an attempt to whitewash the spending scandal swirling around the government," said Canadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper, referring to the gun-registry debacle. "After months of looking into this issue, why could the budget not identify one example of one program that will be reduced by one dollar?" (When the 'Just-us' Minister shows up in parliament before the end of this month with his hand out looking for more dollars to flush down the registry crapper. Will Manley 'Throw Cauchon to the Wind'? Or, will he continue to fund this farce thereby confirming his 'trimming the departmental budgets' speech as the Liberal B.S. it probably is!)
RCMP make gun-smuggling bust
Surrey, B.C. — Three men arrested Wednesday sneaking across the Canada-U.S. border with dozens of guns, diamonds and wads of U.S. cash were likely involved in a guns-for-drugs deal, police say. Working on a tip from the U.S. Border Patrol, RCMP tracked down three men dressed in full camouflage gear hiding on a golf course in suburban Surrey. Police found three large backpacks containing 41 handguns, between $50,000 and $100,000 (U.S.) in cash and diamonds carried by one of the men. Two Tek-9 machine pistols, versions of which can fire like a submachine-gun, were among the big haul of seized weapons. "It's the largest I've ever seen," said RCMP spokesman Const. Tim Shields. "They were handguns of all types. All of them appeared to be semi-automatic. Many of them were brand new, still in the boxes." Such a transaction is not unusual, he said. British Columbia is a prime source of highly potent marijuana exported to the United States, sometimes in exchange for harder drugs such as cocaine and hard-to-get handguns."If you have so much of a certain product on the north side and somebody wants the equivalency in product on the south side, you're going to have to come up with that," said Constable Borden.(And of course, our pot smoking 'Just-us' minister feels the way to handle problems such as this, is to clamp down on duck hunters and target shooters, and spend a billion and a half doing it! Just imagine  the enhancements to police, and border security this money could have made! That's all you can do now, is imagine.. Because the Liberals have wasted it on a paranoid fear of 'legal' firearms. Why can't he just get the harmless 'munches' like other pot heads?)
Man Fatally Shoots Armed Intruder In Mom's Apartment
NEW YORK -- An airman at home in Queens fatally shot an armed man breaking into his mother's apartment, police said. The mother had recently won a $100,000 lottery payout, police commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday, but police said they did not know whether that motivated the break-in. A state Lottery Division spokeswoman did not return a phone call Wednesday. Manuel Falquez, 22, an Air Force information manager stationed at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, was in his mother's third-floor apartment with his girlfriend Tuesday night when a man with a .38-caliber revolver appeared on the living-room balcony and began to jimmy the door with a knife, police said. Falquez grabbed an unlicensed 9mm pistol and ordered the intruder to drop his weapon, police Deputy Inspector Kenneth Mekeel said. Falquez shot the man once in the head when the intruder held onto his gun, Mekeel said. A spokesman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Falquez would be charged with criminal possession of a weapon. (This was the third attempt on her life, Also  see:Lottery Winner's Son Kills Burglar There probably won't be a person on the jury that will disagree with his actions. It's ALWAYS better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.. And as for the criminal? He's a victim of  his own stupidity, but perhaps 'some' of his friends and acquaintances may spend a bit of  time re-evaluating his obviously flawed victim selection process, and future lives could be saved!... Great shot by the way!!)
Gun-shy in the House
No "action plan" can redeem this catastrophe. Nine years after Ottawa set up its gun registry program, its record reads like a case study in public bungling. In 1994, Justice Department bureaucrats assured the government that the registry would have largely paid for itself by 1999-2000. In 1996, Justice admitted its estimates were off, and claimed the registry would be self-financing by 2005-06. In 1998, the bureaucrats told us the registry wouldn't break even until 2012-13. All the while, it turns out the Justice Ministry was actively hiding the real numbers in hopes the scandal could be passed on to successors. And there is no end in sight: An independent report commissioned by the department and released at the beginning of February says this utterly pointless program could cost another $500-million over the next decade. When most people find themselves in a hole, the first thing they do is stop digging. Could someone please explain to us why Mr. Cauchon hasn't dropped his shovel?(If this farce continues, and 'some' of the recommendations are followed, most notably the elimination of ATT's and the need for firearms owners to show a licence or a registration certificate. Could someone please tell me what this entire fiasco was even initiated for? If you have no requirement to show a licence or registration certificate, then there is no requirement to 'get' a licence or registration certificate. It would be just as pointless as Cauchon's stupid idea to flood the system with 'Letters of confession er.. intent' that you currently own unregistered firearms, and will register something before midnight June 30th.. The government can't handle the massive load of paperwork it has now, do you 'really' think they are going to read and file your letter of confession..er..intent? Call them!  Ask them if they received your letter!  Ask them to read it back to you! Ask them if they really think your 'that' stupid! IF they have received a 'million' letters, and it takes even as little as 2 minutes to open and process each one, it will take 100 employees, $350,000.00 'minimum', and  over 2 months to do it.. All of your letters, have in all probability, been shredded and filed in the big blue government dumpster)
Gun debate heats up again in Calgary
There was another incident involving a gun in Calgary overnight. Someone threatened a man with a handgun and stole his sport utility vehicle. We're hearing more and more about guns being used during crimes in Calgary. Police say the only way to stop it is to set tougher penalties. Police are finding many illegal weapons in the hands of criminals on Calgary streets.“If people want guns, they're always going to be able to get the guns and, unfortunately, those people are the ones that get the guns for the wrong reasons. Not a lot we can do about it, do the best we can, but I think it all boils down to stiffer penalties, get the people off the street, the guns go with them,” said Dale Burn, Calgary Police Service. Gun owners like George Fairs said money spent on the National Gun Registry program could have been better used to fight crime. “A billion dollars could put a whack of police officers on the street to deal with the gang-related crime. It's gang-related crime, it's drug-related crime and it has nothing to do with people like me who hunt or target shoot,” Said Fairs.( Car jacking has been common in Toronto for quite a while now.. They usually bump into the back of your vehicle, and when you get out to survey the damage, you get a gun stuck in your face.. 'You' of course are unarmed.. The Liberal "Culture of  Safety" is working very well, for the criminal.. Even in prison, he can keep voting Liberal.. Thanks Jean!!)
Liberals beat retreat on gun vote 
also see :Government backs down on gun bill
and:Ottawa again misjudges costs linked with gun law
The Chrétien government was forced to retreat from a crucial vote on the federal firearms registry yesterday when it became clear too many Liberals refused to support a motion limiting debate on a bill that would streamline the program. Shortly after Mr. Boudria abandoned his plan to limit debate, Speaker Peter Milliken rejected a claim from Liberal MP Roger Gallaway that the government decision to continue with the registry contravened a Commons decision last fall to withdraw a Justice Department request for $72 million to keep the program running until the end of March. Mr. Milliken ruled the all-party agreement to withdraw the request for supplementary spending did not mean the Commons had agreed to suspend the program entirely. Justice Minister Martin Cauchon later told reporters he intends to seek additional funding from Parliament before the end of February to pay the bills the program has been accumulating since mid-January, when funds approved by Parliament last year ran out. "We will come forward with our numbers," said Mr. Cauchon, adding the requests for funding will be included in supplementary estimates to be tabled in the Commons following the federal budget as well as in main estimates of funding requirements for the next fiscal year. (The crucial time will be when the 'Just-us' minister goes after more money! This cannot be allowed to happen. If the liberal backbenchers vote to support this farce by giving it even 'more' tax dollars to flush, they will face the ire of the public that has clearly indicated that this registry waste should END NOW! But, since the arrogance of this liberal government seemingly knows no bounds, we will have to wait and see just how far down the public respect ladder they are willing to slide!)
We've come a long way from the 'northern peso' days(?)
The Liberal Red Book, drafted 10 years ago as the party's manifesto for the 1993 election, had set an "interim target" of reducing the deficit to 3 per cent of GDP within three years. But the government's February, 1995, budget set Ottawa on a much faster course. The election platform translated into a goal of cutting the deficit to $25-billion or so by the 1996-97 fiscal year. Instead, the government recorded its first surplus in the 1997-98 fiscal year. It's been in the black ever since.... But leading Liberals know that one shouldn't exaggerate Canadians' munificence. Polling also shows they have long memories of government waste in the 1970s and'80s and are unwilling to countenance it again. The public liked the principles of program review in the mid-1990s that helped eliminate the deficit, which is why Finance Minister John Manley will find some small savings in today's budget by reallocating spending. The public has little patience for government programs that treat their tax dollars cavalierly, such as the gun registry. Indeed, when asked about specific spending, they almost invariably preferred further tax cuts to increased funds for programs within federal jurisdiction (which exempts health care and education; they fall under provincial jurisdiction).(It's little consolation, that during the 90's the money was rolling in so fast, that even the NDP could have had a surplus. The liberals have been spending like drunken sailors ever since! History has shown, that Liberals do not cut taxes, unless they can sneak the money out of your pockets in some other form, such as 'user fees', surtaxes, etc..etc...etc... The Liberals giveith, and The Liberals taketh away!! usually in the same budget! )
Corrective bill seeks to arm cargo pilots
Key House lawmakers are working to close a loophole in the Homeland Security Act that excludes cargo pilots from carrying firearms to protect their aircraft from terrorist attacks. The legislation now moving through Congress would allow 10,000 cargo pilots to train and carry weapons in the cockpit after undergoing background checks. In addition to cargo, the planes carry vendor customers and company employees. Roger Waldman, a former Air Canada pilot called it "naive" and said that it sends a wrong message that pilots do not trust the airport security system. "A pilot might overreact to a perceived emergency and wound or kill a passenger or fellow crewmember. A stray bullet could render vital avionics inoperative or puncture the aircraft skin," Mr. Waldman wrote in AviationNow.com. "And while pilots in general are a responsible, disciplined lot, they are not infallible. There are irresponsible individuals who should not have access to a firearm in the cockpit. For these and other reasons, many pilots believe guns on airplanes should only be in the hands of the professionals — the sky marshals," Mr. Waldman said.(That 'last' statement make you want to give your head a shake, just to be sure you heard it right! If  "And while pilots in general are a responsible, disciplined lot, they are not infallible. There are irresponsible individuals who should not have access to a firearm in the cockpit" If they are THAT irresponsible, what the hell are they doing in a cockpit in the first place? Stories abound, of lower security in airport cargo areas, UPS.. FedEx.. etc.. could also be highjacked and used to send a 747  into a nuclear reactor..'Particularly in Canada')
Liberal gun vote sparks backlash
OTTAWA -- Liberal MPs are protesting their own government's decision to shut down debate today in an attempt to quietly pass new firearms legislation, with some MPs pledging to vote with the opposition. Today's debate would mark the first time the Commons has voted on a matter dealing with the government's controversial firearms program since it denied a request for an additional $72-million last December. It would also be the 82nd time the Chrétien Liberals have limited debate since coming to power in 1992.First, some Liberals are siding with the Canadian Alliance in condemning the government for attempting to pass the bill, C-10A, in one day. Second, the MPs fear a vote in favour of the bill would give a green light to Martin Cauchon the Justice Minister, to make another request for money even though he has yet to satisfy concerns about the programs' rising costs. Finally, some Liberals, such as Roger Gallaway, MP for Sarnia, take offence to the wording of the motion, which asks the House of Commons to ignore the fact that the Senate has violated its rights by splitting the bill and sending it back to the House. "What is being proposed is scandalous,'' said Gallaway, who accuses the government of trying to maintain the firearms program through "back-door'' measures such as the bill from the Senate and is urging his colleagues to vote against the bill and the vote to limit debate. "It's a Minister who has no principles now, because as the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, he's asking Members of Parliament to waive the law because he's got a problem,'' he said. (And it SHOULD spark a backlash!. Any member of the Liberal government that votes for this farce deserves to lose their seat in ANY election. They will have proven that their interest lay only with the government agenda, and not the people of the country that CLEARLY oppose this entire firearms farce and it's ridiculous cost. What this country does NOT need is a billion dollar lump of 'feelgood' legislation put forward by people that are driven more by their phobias than logic and common sense!)
Look out!!! the Picture is Loaded
Many commentaries have suggested she wanted the word "gun" to be banned from life, she says. "But that's ludicrous. I'd have to be blind and naive to want that. My daughter will learn the word -- I just don't want her having spelling tests with pictures of loaded guns on them." (Oh My Gosh!!! Now the gun in the picture was 'loaded'!! That makes this whole situation 'much' more dangerous! Chloe is now safely locked in a closet to protect her from the plethora of pacifist unfriendly words swirling around her. Thankfully, she's  finally safe in her mothers own itsy bitsy spider infested, fisherprice version of the real world!) 
Gun registry loses track of 157,339 guns brought into Canada and declared at Customs by tourists.
Breitkreuz released documents obtained from the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) showing that foreign hunters and sport shooters declared 89,842 firearms in 2001 and another 67,497 firearms in 2002 as they were entering Canada.  The CCRA has no records of the 157,339 firearms ever leaving the country or where they are now.  Last year, the RCMP admitted that the guns declared by foreign visitors were not being recorded in the Canadian Firearms Registry.“The government and their shills continue to defend the gun registry by saying, ‘All guns start out as legal guns.’  But the fact of the matter is that for the last two years, all any gun smuggler had to do was fill out a Firearm Declaration form at the border, pay their fifty bucks and bring their guns into Canada, Despite the fact that section 42 of the Firearms Act only came into effect on January 1, 2003, the reports also show that the CCRA collected more than $6.8 million in firearms fees for the Department of Justice from these mostly American hunters over the last two years.  “It seems the government has imposed these onerous rules on law-abiding foreign hunters and sport shooters for the last two years just for the money. They’re choking the life out of an important part of our tourism economy.  They are especially hurting aboriginal business and employment opportunities in the lucrative guiding and outfitting market,” (It's now obvious to all but the incredibly naive, that C-68 is all about 'paranoia' and not safety. Perhaps the Liberals should be wisely investing 'their own money' in some beneficial therapy to help overcome their phobias with hunting and firearms?)
Police: 'It's disgusting', Suspects in armed heist deported 3 times
TORONTO - Two men charged with raiding an armoured car and holding several hostages at gunpoint on Wednesday had each been deported to Jamaica three times and have prior criminal records for armed robbery, Toronto police said yesterday. "I think it's disgusting," Detective Sergeant Wilf Townley of the holdup squad told reporters. "I think that there's a sieve that allows these people to run in and out of this country." Police could not say how Mr. Wilson and Mr. Laing were able to enter Canada. Customs spokeswoman Colette Gentes-Hawn said, "Certainly we have the capacity to spot someone at the border who has been ordered deported." However, if someone uses a false name or documents, that would not show up on Customs' computers, she said.At about 7 p.m. on Wednesday, two armed guards carrying a "fairly substantial amount of money" were at a Scotiabank branch in the city's northwest when they were ambushed by two gun-toting men, police said yesterday. One carried a 9-millimetre handgun, the other brandished a .223-calibre assault rifle. Both weapons had a round in the chamber and were ready to fire, Det. Sgt. Townley said. The assault rifle was loaded with armour-piercing ammunition. "These bullets will pierce police vests ... without a problem," Det. Sgt. Townley said. "If you have these in your gun, you are prepared to use them, and this concerns us immensely."Police say the assault rifle was stolen in a home invasion in the Niagara region in 1998. Det. Sgt. Townley said Mr. Wilson served a sentence for a 1993 armed robbery of a restaurant and Mr. Laing received a 10-year sentence for robbing a bank in 1992 at gunpoint. However, Mr. Laing was released only four years into the sentence. Det. Sgt. Townley said screening procedures at entry points into Canada must be tightened because "there's thousands of people that have been deported from this country that are still back in here and wandering the streets in Toronto alone."(This story is a perfect example of not only the gaping holes in our justice system (10 years sentence,- out in four), but also the unbelievable number of holes in our border security. If these convicted, deported,  felons are able to come in and out at will, is there any doubt that a highly organized terrorist group would have little trouble doing exactly the same thing? The Liberals have WASTED over a Billion Dollars on their lame gun registration scheme, supposedly to keep everyone safe from law abiding duck hunters and target shooters. Only a complete IDIOT would argue that this money could not have made a REAL difference to our countries security, both on our borders, and with-in our cities. AND, the Liberals want to keep dumping MORE money into this useless endeavour. ALL taxpayers should now be screaming:
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!)
'Still' Feel Lucky Punk: S&W Intro's .50 Wheel Gun
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Gunmaker Smith & Wesson has introduced its biggest handgun ever. The company bills the new .50-caliber Magnum revolver as the most powerful production handgun on the market. The five-shot Model 500 revolver with an 8.5-inch barrel weighs 72.5 ounces or about a pound more than its big-frame .44 Magnum. It fires a new .50-caliber cartridge that the company said produces nearly three times the muzzle energy of the .44 Magnum. (Don't forget to put on BOTH, ear plugs and Hearing protectors, when the guy beside you at the range fires off one of these!! If you think a .44 makes your hair move.. Just Wait!! See what others are saying )
Cauchon considers leadership bid
Ottawa — Justice Minister Martin Cauchon is  seriously considering a challenge to front-runner Paul Martin for the Liberal leadership, top party sources said Thursday.(The simple fact that our "Just-us" minister continues to think the Gun Registry is "about keeping Canadians Safe", points out some obvious flaws in his thinking process.  No doubt, he will continue to waste tax dollars in the true Liberal Fashion!)
Sheila Copps declares herself people's candidate
HAMILTON (CP) - Proclaiming herself a champion of the Canadian underdog, Sheila Copps became one herself
Thursday as she officially entered the race to succeed Prime Minister Jean Chretien. (And what did  the "Peoples Candidate" tell the people when they wanted to know what she spent $80,000.00 taxpayers dollars in 'un documented' expenses on? Well, it seems it was none of their business what she spent the money on, and she had no intention of submitting recepts for it!! Spoken like a true Liberal



If you think it's going to make ANY difference in Liberal Party Policy who becomes the new leader, You Must Be On Drugs!!


He's Perpetually Prepared
When Jerry Hauer ran the city's Office of Emergency Management from 1996 to 2000, he was known as "Mr. Emergency" and could be found wherever there was trouble. Floods, blackouts, subway crashes, gas and water main breaks, and now terrorist threats. As big as New York is, Hauer is now working on a grander scale, bringing his New York know-how acquired in the city's trenches where terrorists have struck twice - to the nation. Hauer has been saying that for years. When I interviewed him in the city's 23rd-floor emergency Command Center at Seven World Trade Center in 2000, he looked out the windows at the Twin Towers and said, "They're coming, the guys with the guns and bombs, along with the bioterrorists. "I kid a friend about the "stations of the cross" we both make as we walk past famed skyscrapers, go into the subways and crowded places like the Port Authority, or through tunnels and over bridges. "I feel like I've got a bull's-eye on my back," my friend said. I admit that I have a kit packed with clothes, a flashlight and some money that I can take as I run out the door when the alarms go off. One expert told me to "head north, go to the mountains." So the terrorists have already gotten into our heads and we are spending millions of dollars every day trying to head them off. "I think they are laughing at us every time the alarms sound," said former city Detective Richard Lewis, who is now preaching the gospel of preparedness around the world and writing books as well. "I carry the Bible and a semi-automatic Glock pistol," Lewis said. "You never know." (It would be nice to have the option to carry a Glock! The U.S.A. has 70 times the number of guns that Canada has, but their crime rate is not 70 times higher. So, to read these statistics in a 'Liberal'  light, Canadians, must be far too violent to carry a firearm! Aren't you glad the Liberals are spending all that tax money, not on anti terrorism, more police, or medical technology, but rather to keep you safe from yourself... I feel so proud, so honoured, so defenceless, so screwed! )
Canada bans terrorist groups, & not planning to increase security
On the day the solicitor general is highlighting terror groups, another Liberal minister says there's no reason to worry about attacks at home.  The United States and Britain are both on high alert, but Transportation Minister David Collenette says there are no plans for increased security in Canada. (Of course not!! They have all the duck hunters under control! Why Worry about a terrorist attack, don't they know terrorist groups have been 'banned' in this country? You know, if we 'ban' crime, there will be no need for police, if we ban war there will be no need for the military, if we ban stupidity there will be no need for Liberals!)
Armed U.S. Citizens Patrol Border with Mexico 
Jack Foote, founder of Ranch Rescue, says about 50 percent of his group's volunteers are not border dwellers. Volunteers for the five missions his group has conducted have hailed from as far away as Washington state and Canada -- one even flew in from China. American Border Patrol founder Glenn Spencer maintains his group does its hunting only with a video camera. Spencer sets up live video feeds so the group's border forays can be viewed on their Web site. Red rock and rough terrain are all that is visible at the start of a video shot by the group earlier this month. The ultimate in reality TV, a half-dozen migrants gradually appear, trudging through the desert and later being picked up by federal agents. Foote says the volunteers do carry weapons -- both a holstered sidearm and a rifle. "WWe go not just armed, but well armed," he acknowledges.(I wonder how many patrol the Canada/U.S. border to protect Americans, not from 'wetbacks' but terrorist 'frostbacks' looking for an easy place to cross into the U.S. with more explosives.. As long as the Liberal Government keeps releasing so-called 'refugees' with simply a 'promise' to show up on court day, don't expect Canadians to get passive treatment at the U.S. border. Some of those 'thousands' of  'refugees' that are now missing, will no doubt turn up at remote border areas looking for an easy way in, and the American Armed Rancher may very well turn out to be the first line of defence in the American Homeland Security.)
First Nations' firearms licences
VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation will start issuing its own firearms licences later this week, in a direct challenge to Ottawa's firearms' registry. The Tsilhquot'in Nation says it will issue the new licences instead of the legally-required federal licences. Chief Ervin Charleyboy says he's not worried that the plan goes against federal firearms laws. He says people who live on the six Tsilhquot'in reserves don't trust Ottawa's firearms registry. "Especially people out there in the Cariboo-Chilcotin where they live in rural areas, we've lived by the gun and we feed our families and we don't mis-use firearms out there." Charleyboy says many people on the reserves are worried their guns will be taken away from them, if they register with the federal government. (AND, it should be issued in the form of a 'Rubber Stamp' imprinted firmly on the back of the hand.. Why not, it makes about as much sense as the what we have now!)
Fantino tours Jamaican slums
Some 1,045 Jamaicans were murdered last year in this country of 2.6 million. Although that's down from 1,139 in 2001, it is still high enough to make Jamaica one of the most violent societies on the planet. Police shot dead 135 people last year and lost 16 of their own, mainly in gun battles with drug barons and their soldiers. Especially odious was an incident in Tivoli Gardens, where a three-day running gun battle between police and drug lords left 27 residents dead. "The bodies were rotting in the sun and the dogs were eating at them," Gomes said, adding that a public inquiry on the incident did not lead to any charges or even official censure of the police. "Many of the victims were innocent bystanders. Some were women and children." (How can this be? Jamaica is a small island, and has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world! Jamaica, where firearms dealers, now pay $10,000 for a year's  licence, up from $2,500; and firearm users, whose licence fees move to $3,000  from $1,500. If gun control can't keep firearms from criminals on a small island of 2.5 million people surrounded by the sea, how do the Liberals expect it to work in Canada. Canada does not have a 'gun' problem, Canada has a 'government' problem)
Cauchon fires back(And still shooting blanks!)
(Edmonton Sun Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
OTTAWA -- Justice Minister Martin Cauchon accused the opposition of "cheap political comment" yesterday after an attack in the Commons on the consultant he hired to review the mess in the Canadian firearms registry. Alliance House leader John Reynolds claimed Raymond Hession, who reviewed the firearms program, was in a "shocking conflict of interest." Tory Gerald Keddy alleged in the Commons "the fox was literally guarding the chickens." Hession told Sun Media this week that he had a "consulting relationship" with EDS Canada, the company that won the government contract to design and operate a $227-million database for the gun registry. The system was found to be so complex and inflexible it is being now replaced. Hession was a registered lobbyist for EDS between 1996 and 2000. Reynolds said Hession was "the lobbyist called in to review what went wrong with the firearms fiasco in the Department of Justice." "Mr. Hession is a highly respected business person with 40 years of experience," an angry Cauchon shot back, noting Hession's $90,000 review of the registry recommended the government "move away from the EDS system." (Yup !! Another $90,000.00 dollars wasted.. What the hell!! It's only yourmoney, and it 'does' make you safer! However, you would be much safer if he just put on a condom.. After all, you are getting screwed!!)
Quebecer registers a screwdriver as a firearm
The new head of the federal firearms program says he wants gun owners to comply with the law voluntarily - but he is ready to enforce compliance if necessary. Bill Baker, newly appointed chief executive officer of the Canadian Firearms Centre, made the comment as news emerged of a Quebec man who obtained a firearms registration certificate for his screwdriver. Bromont gun owner Patrice Dumas, who resisted registering his Winchester carbine until he was told at the last minute he would lose the rifle if he did not register, decided to test the system by registering one of his home tools - a Fuller screwdriver. Describing the implement as a lever-action - "because I use it to open paint cans" - DDumas subsequently received a Registration certificate for the "firearm." He told the newspaper La Voix de l'Est he could put a screw in the end, but it would be "more dangerous." ("but he is ready to enforce compliance if necessary"!! All the more reason to get rid of this farce.. In a country where collecting and distributing 'kiddie porn' gets you 14 months 'house arrest' and building a bomb to blow up an airliner, killing hundreds of people gets you 5 Years!!! This ASS wants you to do hard time for the old .22 in your closet.. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??? And it Ain't going to change until Ontario quits voting for these incompetents! Before you cast your ballot in the next election, ask yourself  3 reasons why you would vote liberal! If you do, your only going to get more of the same!! The PROOF is there, it's TIME to break the cycle of incompetence)
Seagal takes witness stand at mob trial
NEW YORK (AP) -- Action film star Steven Seagal testified Tuesday that a crew of alleged mobsters demanded that he make movies with them -- or else. Prosecutors say wiretaps caughtt Nasso being instructed to demand money from the actor. In a bugged VIP room at a Brooklyn restaurant in 2001, the suspects could be overheard chuckling over how "petrified" Seagal looked at a meeting, prosecutors said. The actor told jurors he has a licence to carry a handgun and had gone to the meeting armed. "In New York, I always carry a gun," he said. (The 'Mob', if they were smart, should have approched him while filming in Toronto. Here, he would have been: Disarmed, Defenceless, Dead.. after all, It's the Law!)
'Goosing' the Americans
NORWALK -- Though Norwalk officials are downplaying the reports they plan to shoot Canada geese at the city reservoir to control the population, the county's wildlife officer said, but the city has already received the go-ahead for the kill.  Recently, high levels of organic waste were found in tests of the city's water supply and Szabo said geese defecating in the water may be the primary cause. (The geese) are sitting and (defecating) right at the intake for our water treatment plant,'' said hartmann. Collinwood estimates that the flock of geese at the reservoir is between 600 to 900 and that they have migrated from Canada. (With migratory bird hunting permits at their lowest level in 20 years, it's no wonder the goose population has exploded. Our government's useless gun control policies are causing hunters to stop hunting, and hang up their guns until the Liberals are gone. Canadian drinking water is in just as much danger. Just One of the "Culture of Safety" 'benefits(?)' the Liberals won't tell you about!)
Can You Spell: S-T-O-O-P-I-D
If gun is a word the principal doesn't particularly like, what other words might be wiped off the curriculum? Ms. Spence asked. "The word gun isn't going to go away," she said. "The parent has a problem because a gun can cause death, well, I would say that death is a very sure thing. We should educate them about the fact that guns can cause death. There's a danger to guns; like there's a danger to fire. Are we going to stop educating children about fire safety?" While she said she understands where the principal was coming from, she'd rather have seen a different approach."I'd like to see the principal having a dialogue about guns and educating the students," she said. "It's not the word gun that's dangerous. Here, we are imposing fear as opposed to education."(It's knee jerk reactionary responses that make them look stupid.. As a matter of fact it was a knee jerk reactionary response that cost the taxpayer over a  Billion Dollars for our phoney, 'feel good', gun control farce..  Big Brother, in the form of knee jerk reactionary Liberals, are so narrow minded they can stare at you through a keyhole, with 'both' eyes..)
Gun control: Schools ban even the word
The Upper Canada District School Board has removed the word gun from all spelling tests in its schools as a result of a complaint by parents of a Grade 1 student. Every Monday, Chloe Sousa, 7, comes home from Lombardy Public School with a list of 10 words to learn, and each Friday her class is tested on these words. By last week, the class had worked its way through the alphabet to the letter G. "For a split second I considered whether or not I should raise this issue, but I knew I had to stand up for what I believe in. This was not right," she said. "I don't think this is an issue of political correctness. It's an issue of protecting your child from violence. Guns are violent. End of story," said Mrs. Sousa. The Sousas did not hear from the teacher. Then Chloe was sent home later in the week, again with her list, which now came complete with pictures beside each word. "It wasn't a water gun or a toy gun, it was a pistol," said Mr. Sousa. "I was horrified that not only were we ignored, but now my daughter is carrying around a picture of a gun," he said. (An amazing example of yuppy thinking! "Keep em Ignorant, Keep em Safe" and why not? It's always had such fine results when it comes to sex and birth control! I assume, the word 'sex' would also be on her 'hit' list, and the fact she thinks it's the "Guns" that are violent speaks volumes for her mentality. Denying a child the right to 'safely' learn about something, whether it be guns, drugs or sex, ALWAYS results in a high level of curiosity about the object, or subject being banned. After all, where do you think most of  the gun toten crack whores come from? The best bet is from a ignorant, biased, stifling, home life!)
Anti-gun posturing
The double standard is stunning. Non-natives convicted of violent crimes or whose spouses have complained to police that they may become violent are prohibited from owning guns. Not so natives with similar records. So much for Ottawa taking seriously the epidemic of domestic violence on native reserves. Access to information requests filed by Saskatchewan Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz also reveal that Ottawa has spent millions over the past three years on "aboriginal outreach agreements" -- under which federal officials work with native gun owners to help find ways around gun control regulations and to devise native-friendly "community gun safety programs." If only the Liberals were so concerned about the feelings and needs of law-abiding, non-native gun owners. But the topper, also revealed by Mr. Breitkreuz, is that Ottawa gives natives free ammunition -- whether they have valid firearms licences or not. Under treaties, some two centuries old, "the Crown" is obliged to give native bands ammunition for hunting or nets for fishing. Most bands opt for cash in lieu, but some continue to request ammo. To comply, Ottawa dispenses thousands of high-calibre bullets and shotgun shells to native bands, no questions asked. Outside the reserves, on the other hand, even attempting to buy ammunition without a licence is a criminal offence. By now, all of Canada knows that Ottawa's $1-billion gun registry is an intrusive, ineffectual, profligate farce. But the gun licensing exemptions given to natives also show us something else -- that the true purpose of Ottawa's gun control policies has more to do with Liberal anti-gun posturing than with preventing actual violence. If the registry were really about ending gun deaths, why would Ottawa go soft on the one segment of the Canadian population most likely to commit violent crime? (Everyone 'does' know this is an absolute farce. Everyone that is, except the Liberal 'Just-us' minister who is posturing and puffing about how this crap is keeping Canadians safer. Our 'Just-us' Minister and his 'ilk' are whistling in the graveyard.. It's now time to take out the shovels, and put this money sucking corpse to rest!)

Martin Cauchon: Ohhh Pleeease...Ohhh Pleeease...Ohhh Pleeease...
Register Some Guns So We Don't look Quite So Stupid!!
FREE REGISTRATION! --Nawww.. Thanks But NO Thanks.. If It Still Exists, I'll Wait Until Midnight June 30th With Everyone Else!!--
Gun laws 'make criminals of innocent rural people'
(Thanks to reader 'Jack' for this one)
An estimated 500 people gathered in the parking lot of a 100 Mile House restaurant yesterday to protest Canada's controversial gun-registration law. "We had 400 handout sheets. We gave them all out and people were still asking us for them," said organizer Rolf Pfeiffer, 38, a sawmill worker and father of one."It has made innocent people from rural B.C. -- hunters and people who make their living from it -- basic criminals if they don't comply with Bill C68," Barnett said. "It has taken dollars that we need for health care, policing, education and social programs that would possibly protect women and children and seniors from crimes." Barnett called on people to write, fax or phone their opposition to Prime Minister Jean Chretien in a bid to have the law repealed. "We were never consulted when this bill was put into consideration," she said. "It was strictly made by the urban centres. It was made on emotion and not on fact."(Fortunately, most of those urbanites are now seeing the error of their ways.  People who have never owned or fired a gun are speaking out against this massive waste. It's only a matter of time.. The registry is doomed...)
GOVERNMENT’S NEWEST INCOMPLETE FORECASTS SHOW GUN REGISTRY WILL COST "MORE THAN $1.3 BILLION" BEFORE IT IS FULLY IMPLEMENTED (I.E. REACHES“STEADY STATE”)
"Steady State"; Is when they take all of your private information, and pass it over to a private third party company 'BDP Business Data Services' who also, by the way, donated $27,000.00 to the Liberal Party over the previous two years before getting this 'contract'. This is just 'Liberal Business as usual'.

Looking Back at Reality - Who!! Was 'Trafficking' in Fictions?
Hansard - Pages 13686-7   Those who would oppose this system traffic in fictions by pretending that the cost is an impediment. They throw around numbers like $1.5 billion to establish the system, $100 or $300 per rifle to register. They are trafficking in fictions. Someone on the west coast (Gary Mauser) did a study for the Fraser Institute pretending that the cost of registration would be $1.5 billion because the cost to register a handgun under the existing system is on average $82. Factoring in the present antiquated system and individual police inquiries about the background of the applicant, it works out to $82 per handgun on average. That person has taken that number and applied it directly to the six or seven million long arms in the inventory existing in Canada today. However, he has overlooked the fact that in the registration of the existing inventory of long arms we are going to ask only that the owners mail in a card to identify themselves and their firearms. There will be a simple CPIC check to ensure that there is no order prohibiting the owner from having firearms and then he or she will be licensed and registered. This will cost nothing like the $82 which this man pretends is going to be the cost of registration in Canada. This is trafficking in fictions and not meeting the point on the merits. (Just for clarity, 8 million guns x $82.00 is only 656 Million Dollars.. And THAT would be a considerable saving (644 Million Dollars) over the 1.3 BILLION (so far) this Liberal Brain Fart has cost Canadian Taxpayers!!)
Justice Minister fires gun control chief(From:bcwf)
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Martin Cauchon has shuffled aside the head of the Canadian Firearms Centre as the first step in a major overhaul aimed at getting the controversial licensing and registry program back on its feet.  Cauchon said Friday the dismissal of Gary Webster of Edmonton, chief executive officer of the centre for the past two years, was the first of several measures he plans in response to a scathing report on the program from Auditor General Sheila Fraser and two separate inquiries conducted by private-sector firms.  Cauchon named Bill Baker, a senior bureaucrat in the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, to replace Webster and
     take charge of key technology and program changes over the next several months. "This is a political problem, not a bureaucratic one," Breitkreuz said. "The problems that they have created for the bureaucracy are insurmountable. It doesn't matter who they put in there; they're not going to sort out this mess."  Breitkreuz noted five million of the six million weapons registered so far remain to be verified, to ensure they match the details contained in registration papers, while at least 500,000 owners who have received licences still have not registered their firearms.  Another 500,000 owners have yet to apply for their ownership and acquisition licences.  Breitkreuz also argues the federal government has under-estimated the number of firearms in the country by 10 million.  The centre is in the midst of replacing its central computer system, which cost more than $160 million, with a new system whose design alone is costing $34 million. That work has been delayed, with suppliers now saying the system may not be ready for months, at an additional cost of $15 million. (Gee!! How many is this now? The MAJORITY of Canadians are saying 'Scrap the whole registry thing' But the Liberals are pushing forward with their own 'obviously hidden' agenda, while the public now see them as 'fiscally incompetent and arrogant'.. This is truly a government out of control, and Canadians should be afraid, very afraid..)
How will 'This' Affect The Coalition for Gun Control?
Eves government announces tougher tax collection measures:TORONTO, Feb. 10 /CNW/ - The Ernie Eves government will cancel the charters of corporations that fail to file their tax returns under a new plan to improve tax collection, Finance Minister Janet Ecker announced today. "We are sending a clear message that everyone must pay their fair share," said Ecker. "These measures will help ensure that tax revenues are collected in a timely fashion." Notices will be sent by April 30, 2003, to all corporations in Ontario that have not filed their returns or their Exempt from Filing declarations. Once notified, businesses must immediately file the required documents and remit any outstanding tax payments. If corporations do not comply with the requirement to file, their charters will be cancelled, the implications of which include:- forfeiture of corporate assets to the crown;- loss of limited liability and insurance coverage; and - inability to claim tax losses.(A year ago, There was a report that The Coalition for Gun Control has apparently neglected to file a single annual report, as required by the Canada Corporations act, since it was registered in 1992. The filings are supposed to tell where the money comes from and how it is spent.  I have heard no word on their filings, they may now, finally, 'have' to disclose just how many of your tax dollars the Liberals are funnelling to them!)
Mangy coyotes a growing problem for Alberta farmers 
On one hand, the farmers say they are losing too many of their animals, from young cattle to pet dogs, and they want more coyotes killed. On the other hand, animal rights groups say nature should be allowed to sort out the population problems. The most graphic evidence could be the bloody and eviscerated carcass of a calf he says was killed moments after it was born. "We've had coyotes in the pen with cows that are calving in the middle of the night," he said. "There's lots of them around. They need food and if they find it they'll keep coming around." Mike Murray is a trapper who says the high population of coyotes poses problems for the animals themselves. He says many of them have mange, and it's spreading rapidly among the dense population. Mange is caused by an infestation of mites, and leads to a slow painful death. The Voice for Animals Society in Edmonton recently protested the idea of a competition to encourage people to kill coyotes. "It's another case of man meddling, thinking they know better, they know how to manage the wilderness, or they know how to manage wildlife," said Tove Reece, spokesperson for the group. (Some of these animal rights people are simply unbelievable! Sure, let them die of mange, let them infect other species, let them 'do their thing'. Well, you can bet your ass, if one of those 'Natural Coyotes' Grabbed yappy little 'fluffy' from some yuppie's backyard, or cornered a child by the swingset, these Disneyites might benefit from the basic education many experiences such as this, provide!)
Soaring gun registration cost hearings set
A parliamentary committee will start public hearings Feb. 24 to begin lifting the veil on how the gun registration system became a financial black hole for the federal government, the subject of auditor general censure and the target of critics' condemnation.  On that day, the public accounts committee chaired by Alberta Canadian Alliance MP John Williams will begin to grill high-powered witnesses ranging from auditor general Sheila Fraser to justice minister Martin Cauchon and treasury board president Lucienne Robillard. (Seeing that the poll taken before the end of the year said 53% of all Canadians say The Registry should be scrapped, This information should be taken very seriously. Particularly since that poll was taken, more and more Canadian are better informed about the huge waste of taxpayer's money. The  Globe and Mail poll which totalled results from 20438 people, 60% wanted the registry scrapped and the Globe is probably the most left wing paper in the country! I think it's pretty safe to say now, the Liberals have NO public support for this farce outside of their own circles, and this fiasco should be shut down as soon as possible!) 
Potato Cannon Gets Guys Arrested
(Thanks to a reader for this one)
WHITBY - Durham Regional Police surrounded a north Whitby residence after a report of gunshots, only to seize a "potato cannon."   Three men are charged with being a common nuisance and with possession of a dangerous weapon.  Numerous officers, the police helicopter and canine units responded to the Brock Street North address about 9:20 p.m. Thursday after a 911 call.  Four men came out of the home and were arrested, Sergeant Paul Malik said. Police seized a homemade cylinder-shaped weapon capable of firing various projectiles, he said. (Well, it was 'described' as a Cannon and cannons don't have to be registered, but they 'do' require a bit of common sense. Firing one in a built-up area is not an exercise in common sense! Reading this story, my impression is that 3 guys, an 'idea', and no doubt a case of beer,  was the root cause of this experiment. Possibly having a 1 pound potato come smashing through a window, and taking out one of your kids is not something I would consider the result of a lot of sober thought! I don't think a potato cannon should be any more illegal than a shotgun, but I don't fire a shotgun off in my neighbourhood! 'Some' potato cannons are a great learning experience particularly in area of pneumatics.. See this one, 'it' looks like great fun, but 'only' in an area where you would feel comfortable and safe. firing off your shotgun.. But DO keep in mind, under the Liberal 'Fear-Arms' laws it might also be illegal to build one. Have a look at this from California)
Gun registry under fire
(Toronto Sun Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
What keeps on going and going like the Energizer bunny, costs $1 billion and rising, and seems impervious to being shot at? If you said the federal government's long-gun registry, step up and take the biggest carrot for first prize. It's back in the news again this week. Despite selective accounting, neither report can hide the fact that the long-gun registry is expensive, feel-good legislation and the whole firearms program needs a drastic overhaul. It's in chaos and out of fiscal control. All taxpayers should be up in arms over the bungled cost overruns, but hunters even more so. After all, long-gun registration and licensing is costing us more money, besides what we spend on it through general taxes.  To be fair, neither report was aimed at examining whether the long-gun registry, at any cost, will actually help reduce gun crimes or promote public safety, as Cauchon continues to claim. Yet, that evaluation needs to be done before more money is poured into it. The problem is, the long-gun registry isn't even fully up and running, and won't be for years, so evaluating whether it's meeting its objectives is impossible. We've had a handgun registry, however, since 1934. Surely an honest analysis of it could be a starting point about the effectiveness or lack thereof of gun registries in general. From what I've seen, it has done nothing to keep handguns out of criminal hands. (I think at this point, it's pretty safe to say that the 'only' people still supporting this farce are members of the Liberal Cabinet, Coalition for gun control, and those that don't read and/or are incredibly ignorant. Ignorance thankfully, can be educated. Unfortunately not much can be done about true stupidity. This has always been about 'feel good' legislation, and wasting a billion dollars that could be better spent on law enforcement or health care should not allow ANYONE 'feel good' anymore)
Targeted funding
Consultants use euphemisms. The inefficient geographic dispersion of the registry is said to "sub-optimize" it. Conceding the registry was "dauntingly complex," consultant Raymond Hession continues, "The project struck to manage the development failed to prescribe the business process and technical architecture of the solution."   Our less charitable version would be that Rock wanted a high-profile policy hit. (To "Sub optimize" something, it would have to be, at least, optimizable in the first place.. All these 'euphemisms' are simply being used to avoid calling this farce what it really is, and Canadians now realize that this Liberal Brain Fart, is exactly that. Evasive words won't fool any but the foolish. This reminds me of a time years ago, when a 'incident' at a Nuclear Reactor was described as "A Energetic Disassembly, Followed by Rapid Oxidization".. Sounds pretty harmless compared to "Exploded and Burned" eh!)
Shot store owner thought robber had 'play gun'
Because the would-be robbers looked so young under the bandannas  obscuring their faces, Kamil Safatli thought the holdup was a joke.  “It looked like a play gun, like a BB gun, and one of them put the gun on him and told him to get down to the floor. He thought they were just playing around with play guns,” his wife said. Safatli moved toward the two robbers, and that’s when he was shot. “The kid got scared because the my husband came a little bit near him, and he shot him without even hesitating,” Silva Safatli said.(Unfortunately, Mr Safali has not lived in this "Culture of Safety" long enough to know that 'toy' guns are frowned upon, and 'politically incorrect'. When faced with a punk that has a gun, the government has decreed that it 'must' be real. The firearm in this case, would have 'had' to have been a unregistered handgun. As anyone at the 'Just-us' department will tell you, registering a gun makes them 'much' safer, and incapable of being used as this one was!)
The 'same' defences they allow 'Mail Carriers' for protection from Dogs!
(Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
In a speech prepared for delivery to senior  customs managers in Cornwall, Ont., Caplan said the government "does not want Customs to become another police force" so officers don't  need firearms to carry out their duties. But the minister agreed workers  who patrol borders and points of entry need some protection and they will get vests, batons and pepper spray. (Well, a 'vest' to 'maybe' stop the BULLETS of their attackers, and a can of pepper spray to stop the ARMED TERRORIST!! What is the reasoning behind this? Well, 'risk assessment' says no Customs agents have been killed 'yet'.. If the customs agents are REQUIRED to enforce the criminal code, then they are police officers.. It's as simple as that! Using 'students' on our borders, borders on the ridiculous. No wonder Canada's immigration policy is the laughing stock of the entire world.. Hell, we might as well print our passports on toilet paper with a rubber stamp!.. Do the Liberals and their 'dove like' policies make 'you' feel safer? I didn't think so)
Cauchon's 'Gun Vow' brings howls of derisive laughter
(Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
OTTAWA -- There were howls of derisive laughter in the Commons yesterday as Justice Minister Martin Cauchon predicted the government will save $50 million over the next decade on the billion-dollar firearms registry. In spite of the opposition, Cauchon and the prime minister vowed to keep the program. Jean Chretien told reporters following the weekly cabinet meeting that all opponents can expect are changes to tighten up control of tax dollars. "There is no notion at all we will stop the program of gun control. But we have to have better management of the program," said the PM. When the registry was first proposed in 1995, then-justice minister Allan Rock predicted it would cost $2 million. Auditor General Sheila Fraser now estimates taxpayers will be on the hook for $1 billion by 2004. And the program will continue to cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the next  decade even if the government accepts the recommendations this week of an outside consultant and accounting firm KPMG.(This is 'Liberal' fiscal irresponsibility at it's worst. They have totally wasted a Billion Dollars on this farce, and now they are bragging that by 'tweaking' the knobs a bit. they can save taxpayers 50 million??? It's kinda like telling your employer, who sent you out to buy a new truck for $30,000.00 that you decided to buy a broken 'Semi' for $15,000,000.00 but don't worry about the overall price, because you can save the company 1/20th of that amount on the future $2,500,000.00 per year in in maintenance costs.. Absolutely unbelievable!  How 'fired' would YOU be?)
CAUCHON, KPMG AND HESSION ALL MISS THE TARGET
Government documents show many mistakes unaccounted for by the two consultants’ reports.  This is the
mine field the Minister is walking into which he refuses to see: 
   -        400,000 gun owners still don’t have licences and can’t register their guns without them; 

   -        300,000 owners of registered handguns don’t have licences authorizing them to own them; 

   -        Up to 10 million guns still have to be registered;

   -        Five million registered firearms still have to be verified by the RCMP; 

   -        Seventy-eight percent of the firearms registered have blank or unknown entries; 

   -        813,822 firearms have been registered without serial numbers; 

   -        131,000 persons prohibited from owning firearms by the courts are not tracked by the system; 

   -        9,000 persons who have had their firearms licences refused or revoked are not tracked by the system; 

   -        38,000 licenced gun owners unable to be located by the system; 

   -       15,381 firearms licences were issued to persons with no proof of having passed a firearms safety course; 

   -        26,800 duplicate Firearms Registration Certificates have been issued; and 

   -        832 duplicate firearms licences have been issued, and 259 firearms licences have been issued with
            the wrong photograph. 

Breitkreuz predicted that taxpayers wouldn’t know the truth before the next election. “By fall, the Liberals will be heavy into a leadership race and none of the candidates will want to defend their billion-dollar boondoggle.  By spring, a new leader will be elected and the last thing the Liberals will want is this messing up their election plans.  The majority of Canadians want the gun registry scrapped.  They know how to stop the hemorrhaging.  Too bad the Liberals don’t listen to the majority when it conflicts with one of their sacred cows.  It's clear the Liberals are bound and determined to dump more cash into this black hole. (Ontario is the 'key'! More and more people in Ontario are seeing the firearms registry as the farce it really is.. The Alliance will have a LOT more seats in Ontario, the Firearms Registry has Guaranteed it!)
Have you registered your firearms? 
Following are the comments readers shared with the Dryden Ontario Observer Hotline: 
o "Gun registration should be scrapped immediately and Mr. Cauchon forced to resign immediately."
o "I’m definitely opposed to the gun registry. I’ve been a law abiding citizen all of my life. I’m well over 50, and I don’t hunt anymore, but am dead set against it. A billion dollars is way too much for something that’s not going to work. I will not register any of the guns that I have."
o "I’d like to voice my objections to Bill C-68. It’s just a huge money pit. There are so many programs in this country that could use the money. This must have the criminals laughing all the way to their next job."
o "As a veteran of WWII who remembers well what happened under Hitler’s takeover of Europe, I am bitterly against any form of gun control such as C-68, which takes away those very freedoms for which we fought."(There are over a hundred similar statements, and only 'one' that agrees with the waste! The tide is certainly changing, people are sick and tired of this government arrogance and waste )
Gun law foes target urban dwellers
RENFREW -- About 300 people crowded into Renfrew's warehouse-sized armoury last night at an information session on gun control -- and city people and big government were the targets of their anger. People jammed the entrance, forcing a lineup to sign petitions out the door. They brought placards with slogans such as, "This land is our land. Back off government." They hope to get the federal government to scrap the controversial gun registry, which they believe unfairly stigmatizes rural hunters as the cause of violent crime."Urbanites are concerned with cost overruns. But they still don't get it. It has nothing to do with gun control, but controlling people. And gathering a database on people." In a speech, Saskatchewan Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz said he's applied for 300 access-to-information requests, and discovered 200 breaches to police databases. He suggested computer hackers could steal gun owner profiles and use the information to see who owns valuable guns. Last fall, Justice Minister Martin Cauchon announced the federal gun registry is $1 billion over budget.(One by one the Liberal seats in Ontario will topple. Even 'city' people are starting to recognize the folly of this ridiculous registry. In 69 years, the handgun registry has not 'ever' solved a single crime, or led police to a single criminal, Today handguns are the firearms of choice for the hood, punks, and gang members roaming the cities. Disarming and/or harassing duck hunters and target shooters will not stop this problem. Only longer, tougher, jail sentences will. But, why would the Liberals want to piss off a criminal in jail? After all, the Liberals just gave them the 'right' to vote.)
Half-caulked man still free
(Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)
RED DEER, Alta. -- Gun registry opponent Bruce Hutton failed in his mission Monday to be charged by police. Hutton, who refuses to obey a new federal law requiring people to register their firearms, unsuccessfully tried to give himself up to Mounties in Red Deer. "The law does nothing to make Canadians safer," Hutton, a retired RCMP officer, told supporters. Hutton marched into the station with a caulking gun which had been fashioned into a firearm. Police declined to arrest him but kept the device for safety reasons(???). Hutton hoped to be charged in order to take the fight against the gun registry to the Supreme Court of Canada. (Caulking gun, Soldering gun, Glue gun, Deadly weapon, One of these things is not the same, one of these things does not belong!! It's 'obvious' the Feds never paid attention to anything on Sesame Street did they? )
Two reports on gun registry don't answer key questions, say critics 
OTTAWA - Two reports that were supposed to get to the bottom of the troubles with the government's billion-dollar gun registry don't answer key questions raised by the auditor general, critics charged today. Justice Minister Martin Cauchon released the reports in the House of Commons today. The first, a $52,000 audit by the accounting firm KPMG, found no problem with his department's spending practices on the beleaguered Canadian Firearms Centre. (?) The second, a $90,000 report by a private consultant, contains 16 recommendations on how to reduce spending on the registry, which was originally supposed to cost taxpayers just $2 million but is know expected to top $1 billion by 2005. Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz called the reports a "waste of taxpayer's money" that don't answer Fraser's key questions. "The minister is just hiding behind his reports, he's still not being up front and keeping Parliament informed. That was what the auditor general complained about, that Parliament is kept in the dark." He accused Cauchon of stalling until he is transferred out of the justice hot seat and the Liberals are well into the distraction of a fall leadership race and a potential election. "He's not taking responsibility because he's not going to be the justice minister. To me this smells of a delay in order to avoid any accountability. (The first chance they get, they will move Cauchon out of the 'Just-us' minister position, as they have with two others. They will continue to play Musical 'Just-Us' ministers, while they shift other people around in a vaine political attempt at 'duck and cover' ..
'A Few More Links'
(Even 'City' People are starting to say: "Hey Wait a Minute!"
Gun registry savings decried(Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)

Registry reviews fail to hit the mark(Canoe Link: Will Vanish in 24hrs or less)

Reports offer fix for bloated gun registry

Gun registy will take up to $500 million more to fix
In a detailed 65-page report on the massive problems facing the registry and a $1-billion cost overrun so far, Mr. Hession recommended the Justice Department abandon some of the complex requirements and reporting procedures that are now facing firearms owners. Those include dropping the requirement for authorization to transport restricted and prohibited firearms, removal of the requirement for weapons owners to produce licences and registration certificates, relaxation of import and export requirements and removal of a requirement for owners to provide specific purposes for owning prohibited firearms.(Hmmm I haven't seen the entire 65 pages yet, it would seem that only a synopsis is published on the CFC website. If what is reported above is true, this removes the entire reason for registering a firearm in the first place, (other than the government 'still' wants to know who has what for future confiscation plans) and affirms that licensing for prohibited and restricted firearms is all that's needed!)
KPMG and Hession Report
OTTAWA – Canadian Alliance Firearms Critic Garry Breitkreuz made the following statement today in the House of Commons in response to Justice Minister Martin Cauchon’s tabling of the KPMG and Hession reports on the Firearm Registration boondoggle “Mr. Speaker, while none of us have had a chance to read these two consultants’ reports, they seem to indicate an attempt to whitewash a billion-dollar boondoggle and absolve the Minister and his senior bureaucrats for their incompetence.  All the Minister confirms today is that they really did waste a billion dollars. “On January 8th, the Minister’s news release stated the review by KPMG was: “… to verify the adequacy and appropriate application of the CFC’s financial systems and controls. This will also assist in confirming the validity of the Program’s financialstatements.” “Today, the Minister reports that KPMG found exactly what he told them to find. “With respect to Mr. Hession’s report, the Minister says Parliament now has to wait another few weeks while the Minister prepares an “Action Plan”.  Why does Parliament have to wait a few more weeks?  Have the Minister’s bureaucrats been doing absolutely nothing for the last several months? (Action Plan? I would imagine the "action plan" consists largely of  asking for more money! It would be totally unbelievable for 'this' government to act on the demands of  8 provinces, 3 territories, numerous police services, and the Ontario Association of Police Chiefs, that the government prove the registry works, is cost effective, and does what they were promised it would do by Alan Rock. The Ontario Association of Police Chiefs also said the 'Audit' must 'itself' be Audit able to provide that proof. It's not likely any of these prerequisites will, or can be met! It's 'also' unlikely the government will listen to any of these organizations, because this is TRULY a government unto itself, and out of the control of Canadians in General. I think it's TIME to call an election. The Liberals DO NOT have a mandate to govern, if they DON'T listen to the people!)
A Review of the Management and Administration of the Canadian Firearms Program
The Whole thing starts by determining a "BaseLine" : The first baseline forecast suggesting that the Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) would cost taxpayers only about two million dollars in excess of the fee income it would generate was plainly based on flawed assumptions." The 'Second' baseline is based on pushing through the flawed legislation of Bill C-10A "The second baseline, Bill C-10A is intended to streamline program administration through an Alternative Services Delivery (ASD) contract awarded in 2002." It 'also' goes on to say the almost half a billion dollars wasted on this incredibly flawed 'database' is 'unrecoverable' The investments arising out of Bill C-68 to the point of completion of the "load-up" (the creation of the databases) of firearms registrations are not recoverable. That is, the estimated $400 million invested to create the massive electronic files of the license and firearms registry are not recoverable from future fee income. The registry, however, is the resulting asset that enables the CFP to operate for years to come. If this amazing 'system' is an "asset that enables the CFP to operate for years to come" What happened to the Auditor Generals statement that this 'un-verified' "asset" is obsolete and in need of replacement? Read the Hession Report for yourself, I'm sure that after reading it you will agree that the "mandate" for this report by the Liberal Government was 'Find exactly what we want, we don't care if the 'registration of firearms' has any benefit at all, the system has to 'look' as if it functions. This becomes clear when the 'investigator' does not seem to understand the 'function' of the system. In the Section: 6.4.2  Performance Management, he states  "CFP’s core business is the licensing and registration of firearms.".. The basic fact that the OWNERS are 'Licensed' and the 'firearms' registered seems to have escaped this 'investigator'. In The "Technology Risk" section he says "A significant concern requiring focused attention is the data "clean-up" and data conversion activity that is an important prerequisite to the implementation of the ASD solution. This dear friends means ALL of the 'garbage' in the database MUST be verified. 5,000,000 guns in the database MUST be verified to "clean-up" this mess. And, of course 'more deadlines

  •  Passage of Bill C-10A by April 1, 2003. (Force this flawed legislation through)
  • Clean up and conversion of licensing and registration data by December 31, 2003. (verify 5 million guns!!!)
  • Transition to the ASD solution ("go live") by January 1, 2004. (Turn the whole thing over to 'Private' control)
  • Approval of the 2003 Continuous Improvement Plan by May 31, 2003. (Force this crap through Legislation)
  • Approval of any legislation required for implementation of the 2003 Continuous Improvement Plan by March 31, 2004. (FORCE THROUGH ANYTHING ELSE NEEDED)
  • New federal work performance and cost standards approved for implementation in opting-in and opting-out jurisdictions by September 30, 2003. (Pass on any additional costs the the provinces)
  • Integration of CFP headquarters by May 31, 2003. (Start moving everything to Quebec)
  • Integration of Central Processing Sites by December 31, 2003. (Move everything left over  to Quebec)
  • NWEST transferred to the RCMP by April 1, 2003. (Hell! This one actually makes sense!)
This ALL Hinges, like never before, on VOLUNTEER VERIFIERS
without them , this farce is well on its way to ANOTHER billion dollars wasted Remember "Friends Don't Let Friends Be Verifiers"

Firearms registry costing 'flawed,' report says
The federal Justice Department had no idea of the massive technological job involved in registering every firearm in the country, says a report on the $1-billion cost overrun in the Canadian Firearms Registry. Industry Minister Allan Rock, who was justice minister at the time, assured Canadians in 1995 that the gun registry would cost taxpayers $2-million. The registry's cost has ballooned to $688-million; that doesn't include indirect costs borne by other government departments and the RCMP. And the registry will cost another $291-million, at least, over the next 10 years, said Raymond Hession, a former deputy minister who produced a report on the troubled program. That figure assumes Ottawa can collect nearly $200-million in fees from gun owners and impose rigorous cost constraints on the program. Mr. Rock and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien have blamed the cost overruns on the provinces' unwillingness to administer the program, and on unco-operative gun owners. But Mr. Hession said the original estimates simply were unrealistic. Mr. Hession made a number of recommendations to reduce the cost of the program, but the measures would save only $53-million over 10 years.In the Commons yesterday, Mr. Cauchon said the government stands by its controversial gun-registration policy, saying it is a matter of public safety. (There was no need for Rock's figures to be "unrealistic", he and his whole government were told that this would cost well over a billion dollars, but they refused to listen, and proved it with his "BIG LIE " speech. on Monday, April 24, 1995. Cauchon then goes on with his 'now obligatory' parroting of the "Matter of public Safety" crap, when in fact they are spending $12,288.00 more money per firearms death (including un preventable suicides) than they spend per death on Aids, Cancer, and Diabetes COMBINED. This incredibly shameful fact alone, is costing THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of Canadian lives every year. LISTEN TO THE MAJORITY OF CANADIANS FOR ONCE!! Save Lives, SCRAP THE REGISTRY
Consultant says 'Even More' money needed to make gun registry work 
OTTAWA - An independent consultant has recommended the federal government spend even more money to make the controversial gun control program work. Among his recommendations, Hession suggested that:the department should provide better public service and reintroduce online registration; an advisory council should be set up to oversee the program; the Miramichi, N.B., and Montreal offices should be consolidated; new software development should be frozen, except for emergency requirements; other steps to improve accountability and financial control should be implemented. Justice Minister Martin Cauchon said he will study the reports and within a few weeks release a plan to further cut costs and improve efficiency.(The 69 years old hand gun registry has proven that laying a piece of paper beside a 'legal' gun does NOTHING to improve public safety, so the obvious thing to cut would be the registry itself. But that, would require the Liberals to admit they were wrong, and the money was truly 'wasted' not something a Liberal will admit to willingly. What this country really need to improve public safety, is far fewer Liberals!)
Manley fires shot across Martin's bow as Grits meet
Mr. Manley noted that Mr. Martin was vice-president of the Treasury Board when all the additional gun-registry spending was quietly approved.  "He needs to answer some questions about why, for example, when he was always a member of Treasury Board, why did he approve all of the expenditures for the gun registry if he now thinks they weren't wise  expenditures?" Mr. Manley said in a interview Saturday during a meeting of Alberta federal Liberals. "It's one thing to be critical of things we've done. . . . But I think it should be put in the context of a certain amount of humility about one's own  participation.(Do you know how 'good' it makes me feel to see the Liberals pointing fingers at each other to assign blame for the firearms farce! It only means they KNOW its a screwed up mess, and are admitting it 'by proxy')
Fed. Government now handling gun safety courses in Saskatchewan
Government officials say they can do the job more efficiently and for  less money. Dave Migadel is the chief firearms officer for western Canada.  "The cost to the taxpayer will be minimal," says Migadel. "It's mainly  just in support of the instructors." Migadel says the price of the safety course for students will depend on how much instructors want to charge.  He expects most will stick with the current fee of $25. Migadel says he was able to recruit only 500 of the 1,300 volunteer SAFE instructors to continue doing the courses. ("The cost to the taxpayer will be minimal,"? Something managed by the federal government that that won't cost much? I'm sure this is going to be a first, if it works, which is not likely!  I can remember the first version of  the federal firearms safety book, that advised checking the barrel for obstructions 'after' the gun was loaded.. Several insurance companies withdrew policies for any organization that would train using the government manual that basically told new shooters to look down the barrel of a loaded gun.. No wonder 800 former instructors declined to 'volunteer' for the feds.)
Martin calls for review of defence policy
CALGARY (CP) — Less than 24 hours after he pledged to hold off on policy pronouncements, Liberal leadership front-runner Paul Martin called today for a review of defence policy and condemned the Chrétien government for sending soldiers into war with shoddy equipment. The former finance minister also shot down his fellow Liberals for the high price  of the controversial gun registration program, which has surpassed $1 billion. "There is no defence in the huge increase in the cost that occurred," he said. "It  is simply unacceptable."(Isn't 'this' an interesting statement from the Finance Minister in charge during the time of all of this "Simply Unacceptable" spending.. And it would seem, according to Martin, Chrétien is responsible for under funding the military even though HE was the finance minister up until a short time ago.. Spoken like a true hypocrite, and lying politician for which in his own words, "There is no Defence") 
Gun owners' addresses found in garbage
Privacy commissioner George Radwanski reported earlier this week that his office was tipped in late 2001 that Firearms Centre waste bags were found frozen to the bottom of the garbage bin. Radwanski did not disclose the location. The bags contained return envelopes the centre had mailed to gun owners to send back to its processing site at Miramachi, N.B., with firearms Registration applications. Although many of the envelopes carried the names and return addresses of the gun owners, a private company  processing the applications, BDP Business Data Services Ltd., discarded the  used envelopes with regular office trash. Firearms Centre spokesman David Austin said yesterday more than 1.5 million of the envelopes had been sent out to gun owners across Canada, but noted  BDP switched to paper shredders to dispose of waste immediately after Radwanski informed the firearms centre about the container discovery. Stinson said that if thieves had found the envelopes, they would have known the location of dozens of homes containing firearms. He accused BDP of breaching the privacy rights of Canadians and demanded action from the government.Solicitor General Wayne Easter noted Radwanski reported the matter and "when the privacy commissioner raises some concerns, we constantly try to accommodate those concerns and work with him." Easter also brushed off criticism from Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz over the MP's discovery that only one million of the six million firearms in the registry have been verified to match the details sent in on registration applications by gun owners. Breitkreuz obtained the information from the RCMP, which is responsible for maintaining the registry. "There comes a time to move on, and maybe it would be better for society if that member, instead of undermining the system constantly, tried to work with us to improve it," said Easter. (Easter's comments are typical of this government. The 'majority' of Canadians are not working 'with' the 'system' to improve it, because the 'majority' of Canadian realize its worthless, and ONLY the liberals don't seem to understand this. As 'Easter'  seems to convey: Ho-Hum only 1 million out of 5.9 million guns are verified.. Ho-hum, so what if it's going to cost 'another' billion.. Ho-hum this is what my 'government' wants and has nothing to do with what Canadians want.. We have the majority, so go away and don't bother us! ) 
Border guards see policing as main role
"What is our priority -- cross- border shopping or public security? Clearly, the focus of the mandate should be on public security," said Ron Moran, national president of the Customs Excise Union."The agency that has the job of protecting the border should be run by an organization that is fundamentally about law enforcement and public security rather than a revenue-generating organization," Mr. Moran said. That view differs sharply from that of Canada Customs and Revenue Agency officials. "Our primary focus is border security to facilitate trade and transport of goods and services and people," said Sam Papadopoulos, agency spokesman.The union has called for bullet-proof vests, the power to arrest people and the right to carry guns. That would put them in line with their U.S. counterparts. Over many months, protective vests were phased in and, currently, all inland customs officers working on inspection lines have been issued one, Mr. Papadopoulos said. "This is not only 9/11 driven, it is salary driven," Mr. Papadopoulos said. Customs officers would be entitled to better pay if they were armed and deemed a police force rather than as border inspectors. "We are not a police department. Guns are not needed. Officers are provided with adequate tools to fulfill their job description," Mr.Papadopoulos said.(It would seem, by this explanation, the the Liberal Government's main reason for not arming the people who are on the very front lines of our internal security, is 'money'!! Yet, they don't have any problem spending a billion dollars to protect Canada and her citizens from the scourge of the duck hunter! Absolutely unbelievable!! If they give the border 'inspectors' protective vests, then they have admitted that their lives are in danger, but in the 'Canadian Culture of Defencelessness' it wouldn't be right, or politically 'canadian' correct, to give them guns and training too! It's politically safer better to wait until someone gets shot and killed.)
 

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