FED: CTF Asks Leaders to Appoint Anti-Long-Gun Registry MPs to Committee

OTTAWA: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has sent letters to Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and NDP Leader Jack Layton urging them to appoint to the Public Safety and National Security Committee MPs who will support Ms. Candice Hoeppner’s Bill C-391 to end the wasteful long-gun registry. The CTF also is encouraging its 60,000 supporters to contact Mr. Ignatieff and Mr. Layton with the same request.

CTF Federal Director, Kevin Gaudet, said “we congratulate the leaders for having allowed a free vote in the House on this issue. We urge them to continue this fair-minded approach at committee.”

Once the House resumes sitting, the bill will be returned to the Standing Committee for Public Safety and National Security for its review. With the prorogation of Parliament all committees were dissolved and must be reconstituted.

Prior to prorogation, the committee membership consisted of six MPs (Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois) who voted against Bill C-391 and six who voted for Bill C-391 (all Conservatives). However, the chair only votes if there’s a tie. This essentially gave those who opposed Bill C-391 a majority on the committee.

The CTF has been opposed to the long-gun registry since the passing of Bill C-68 by then Justice Minister Rock. Since then the CTF has brought to Parliament tens of thousands of petitions signed by those wishing to see the long-gun registry abolished. Further, the CTF sought from the Auditor General an audit of the program that revealed, amongst other things, its tremendous waste.

Support for Ms. Hoeppner’s Bill to abolish the long-gun registry came regardless of party affiliation, including MPs from the Conservative Party, 12 from the NDP and eight from the Liberal Party.

By: Kevin Gaudet
Posted: January 18, 2010
Topic: Federal

Contact the regional director Gregory Thomas for further information.

Type: News Releases

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Wed, 2010-01-20 05:07 — An Anonymous Taxpayer

immigrants

Yep stop the immigrants completely we have enough now .

Tue, 2010-01-19 08:57 — lharding (not verified)

Only half true

The idea that an immigrant can receive more money than a Canadian senior is actually a myth that picked up legs because it got printed in a daily newspaper. No amount of correction can seem to counter this, although we have printed a counter article in our Taxpayer magazine at least twice. Scroll down to the Canadian section at this link to find the full story: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/refugees.asp.

It is entirely possible that someone could acquire dual citizenship, move to their original country, and take advantage of their Canadian citizenship in whatever ways possible. Solving this problem is not straightforward unless we required people to revoke their initial citizenship in order to become Canadian citizens. However, this has drawbacks of its own.

Tue, 2010-01-19 06:29 — An Anonymous Taxpayer

Pensioners

I was in a conversation with a friend who said that immigrating people receive more money than a retired senior.

Someone who has lived and worked their entire life in Canada should not be subject to this embarrassment.

I also heard that there are a lot of people who immigrates into Canada, return to where they are from and only use us as a tool for health and protection.

Is there something that we, as Canadians, can do to stop this stupidity?

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