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Liberal MP stacks deck to keep gun registry

Wednesday afternoon April 28th, the Public Safety and Security Committee again will discuss the witness list for Candice Hoeppner's bill to end the wasteful long-gun registry, Bill C-391. It remains to be seen if Canadian Taxpayers Federation Federal Director Kevin Gaudet will be one of them. Liberal MP Mark Holland, a committee vice-chair, tried to move a motion that 33 witnesses would appear in their hearings, with only 5 of them opposed to the gun registry. The CTF would be excluded.

The CTF has every reason to appear before this committee. We speak on behalf of tens of thousands of supporters and have a long history of advocacy on the gun registry. Besides, in the interests of democracy and fairness, witnesses should reflect both sides of the gun registry debate, not just one. As well, some provinces have voiced their opposition to the long gun registry, as Saskatchewan did just today.

To act on this issue

1) Click here to email Liberal, BQ and NDP committee members asking them to invite the CTF as a witness. Otherwise, cut and paste these addresses: Davies.D@parl.gc.ca, MenarSe@parl.gc.ca, HollaM@parl.gc.ca, Kania.A@parl.gc.ca, MouraMa@parl.gc.ca, Oliphant.R@parl.gc.ca
 
2) Click here to respond to this week's CTV online poll which asks, "Do you support the long gun registry?"

3) Sign the CTF petition to abolish the long gun registry.

By: Lee Harding
Posted: April 26, 2010
Topic: Federal

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