Edited
Hansard • Number 005
Friday,
October 4, 2002
STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
[Hansard – Page 309]
Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, last Saturday the Ottawa Citizen called on the Liberal government to “end the gun registry, which has been reduced to mailing stick-on numbers to gun-owners”. One of the main reasons the government used to justify the gun registry was to trace stolen firearms. Now the justice minister trusts criminals so completely that he thinks they will just leave his department's stickers on the firearms they steal.
In
the throne speech, the Prime Minister said “We need regulation to achieve the
public good”. What public good can come from issuing 4 million gun
registration certificates with 3 million blanks and unknown entries,
three-quarters of a million of them with no serial numbers? The registry has
become the most expensive garbage collection system in the country. How big do
the mistakes have to be before the government will admit its billion dollar
blunder?
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