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"
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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
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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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