"In 1998/99, the Liberals spent 8 times more on their gun registration scheme than on cancer research."

Breitkreuz used a research paper prepared for him by the Library of Parliament to illustrate his point (e-mail, call or write for a copy – see numbers below). "Approximately, 60,000 victims die of cancer annually yet in 1998/99 the federal government invested a paltry $16,187,921 for cancer research. Fewer than 200 people a year die in firearms homicides yet in 1998/99 the government wasted $130,807,025 to implement their controversial gun registry. Does that make any sense to anyone, let alone cancer patients and their families?" asked Breitkreuz.

"It will become more shocking when the Liberals finally wake up to the fact that registering guns wouldn’t have stopped even one of the 151 murders committed with firearms in 1998. Cancer research saves the lives of many - gun registration doesn’t save any. It’s negligence of the highest order when pursuing political whims takes priority over spending on lifesaving public health programs. It’s criminal that the government wastes hundreds of millions on a useless gun registry when the money could have been saving hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives by investing it in cancer research."

"The Prime Minister and his Cabinet are responsible for making the tough decisions about spending your hard-earned tax dollars where they will do the most good. The Liberals are desperately trying to convince Canadians that the more than $300 million spent so far on their politically-motivated gun registry plus spending $60 million a year for at least the next ten years, will save the most lives. Thanks to this new information, Canadians now know better than that," concluded Breitkreuz.

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