40th Parliament, 3rd Session

Edited Hansard • Number 060
Thursday, June 10, 2010

ORAL QUESTIONS

Firearms Registry

Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, former Liberal MP, Hec Clouthier, gave a scathing rebuke of the Liberal leader's decision to whip his party's vote on the long gun registry and said that the Liberal leader was forgetting about rural Canada. That is very divisive politics.

Justice ministers from Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Yukon have spoken out against the long gun registry, along with many police officers.

Why will the Liberal leader not allow his MPs to vote with the best interests of their constituents in mind and truly respect democracy?

Could the Minister of Public Safety explain to opposition members why their constituents deserve to be properly represented?

Hon. Vic Toews (Minister of Public Safety, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his strong support of our efforts to scrap the wasteful and ineffective long gun registry.

Comments by the former Liberal MP, Hec Clouthier, go to show that not even members from his own party agree with the decision to whip the vote and ignore rural Canadians. It is more evidence that the Liberal leader is not in it for Canadians. Indeed, he is just in it for himself.

The choice is clear: vote to scrap it or vote to continue it.

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For the audio version of Garry's question, click here