This video shows Kevin Gaudet's testimony regarding the long gun registry. The media received the following notice in advance. To sign the CTF's petition to end the long gun registry, click here.

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
 
Media Advisory

·     Annual Costs over $106 million per year
·     Total cost over $2 billion and counting

OTTAWA: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) Federal Director, Kevin Gaudet, will appear today before the Federal Standing Committee on Public Safety reviewing Ms. Candice Hoeppner's Private Members Bill C-391 to end the wasteful long-gun registry.

Gaudet will testify between 3:30 p.m. EST until 5:30 p.m. EST on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in West Block room 269.
The CTF has opposed the wasteful long gun registry for 15 years since its inception as part of Bill C-68 when it was implemented by then Justice Minister Allan Rock in 1995.  The CTF delivered thousands of petitions asking the Auditor General to audit the program. She did and discovered massive waste.

Since then the CTF has also delivered another 14,000 petitions to then Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day again seeking the elimination of the wasteful long-gun registry.

The CTF is a national, non-partisan, not-for-profit organization with 74,000 supporters. It does not issue tax receipts and does not take government money. The CTF refused the committee’s offer to pay expenses to travel to appear. Instead, contributions will cover the costs.

By: Lee Harding
Posted: May 25, 2010
Topic: Federal

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