Sentences with phrase «anti-long gun registry»

Instead of fresh explanations, Harper offered well - worn tales of derring - do: the Universal Child Care Benefit, the GST cuts, the end of the Wheat Board monopoly and of the long - gun registry.

Yesterday one wag suggested Harper didn't actually need to deliver a speech - of - his - life, and that his ambition should be more modest: «He needs to make the generic case he would make to any audience — economy and trade — and the narrower case that works best with Conservatives — Wheat Board, long - gun registry, resource exports, crime,» this fellow wrote.

The long gun registry was unpopular in rural and northern areas.

With hot - button right - wing populist issues like abortion and capital punishment largely off the table in Canadian politics, the long - gun registry took on disproportionate importance for that portion of the Conservative base.

The long - gun registry split the NDP leadership contenders.

The information commissioner questioned the government's deletion of gun registry data.

The now - abolished gun registry, which had been established by a previous Liberal government, was always controversial.

As for getting data on the number and type of guns in the United States, Branas declined to comment on the advisability of creating a federal gun registry — an idea that has drawn extensive opposition from opponents of firearms regulation.

«But I will say that there are survey methods [not involving gun registries] that could perhaps get us serviceable estimates.»

Ottawa criminal defence lawyer Solomon Friedman appeared on CJAD Radio's Barry Morgan Show on Tuesday, September 13 for an interview and debate on the subject of the long gun registry.

And according to CBC News Now, other major legislation that will be dealt with this session includes immigration, financial services review, copyright reform (Bill C - 11), the omnibus crime bill (Bill C - 10) and doing away with the long gun registry (Bill C - 19).

Note, there's no mention of the gun registry and nary a word (and this isn't a crime but still a justice issue) on the process for appointing judges to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The purpose of this legislation was to dismantle the long - gun registry established by the Firearms Act («FA»), and destroy the data contained therein.

I will begin today by venturing somewhat farther afield than simply addressing the long gun registry and Bill C - 19.

Constitutional law: The federal government enacted legislation requiring the destruction of all long - gun registry records collected by the provinces.

Judge rejects Quebec's attempt to block Ottawa from destroying gun registry data, Montreal Gazette

Hayes points out that while the government has talked a lot about the privacy intrusive aspects of the gun registry they haven't explained why they would introduce a much more intrusive regime around Internet use.

Building on the cost effectiveness and success of the long - gun registry, the new cannabis legislation empowers the government to establish a marijuana registry.

Lawyer Solomon Friedman discusses the gun registry and gun control in Canada on Byline with Brian Lilley.

Solomon testified about Bill C - 19, the proposed Act to repeal Canada's long gun registry.

Friedman said gun owners are pleased with the Harper government's position on guns, particularly its plan to repeal the long - gun registry.

Solomon Friedman appeared before the Senate committee studying the long gun registry act on March 15, 2012.

Ottawa criminal defence lawyer Solomon Friedman was quoted and made the link between these breaches and the RCMP's bungling of the long gun registry.

Ottawa criminal defence lawyer Solomon Friedman appeared on CJAD Radio's Barry Morgan Show for an interview and debate on the subject of the long gun registry.

Ottawa criminal defence lawyer Solomon Friedman appeared on CJAD Radio's Tommy Schnurmacher show for an interview and debate on the subject of the long gun registry.

Major kudos must go to the Québec government's team of lawyers, who masterminded the challenge which resulted yesterday in the grant of a permanent injunction against the destruction of the long - gun registry data by the federal authorities.

You may be baffled by the gun registry decision, even having read my earlier explanatory post.

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada brought to an end the lengthy saga of Canada's long - gun registry.

Hence the former Harper government's destruction of the Liberal - created long - gun registry and its vandalism of the data contained therein, plus the Wildrosers» stout defence of the «property rights» of so - called «law - abiding gun owners,» as well as the party's insistence Ottawa leave non-criminal regulation of firearms to the provinces.

The Harper government destroyed the long - gun registry last fall, but for a Toronto women's legal clinic, the battle to reinstate it continues.

(The Québec Court of Appeal's recent gun registry decision, Canada (Procureur général) c. Québec (Procureur général), 2013 QCCA 1138, which I summarized here, is a fine example of that sort of rhetoric.)

The federal government has already destroyed the data on 5.6 million rifles and shotguns registered in other provinces following its decision last year to scrap the controversial and costly long - gun registry.

MONTREAL — Despite two setbacks in the last month, Quebec says it will continue its legal battle with Ottawa to preserve the province's records in the federal long - gun registry.

Additionally, we believe in the necessity of a national gun registry or database.

Well too bad if you think so, because state law bans any state or local government entity from creating a gun registry under pain of a $ 5 million fine, the Sun Sentinel's Skyler Swisher reports.

It could be used to share sensitive databases, such as gun registries or medical records, on a large scale.

The Liberals can not and will not do what's necessary on the punishment side of gun control, not if it means looking bad on their gun registry.

Mad as we may be at the Liberals for the sponsorship and gun registry ineptitudes, we are not senile.

The anti-long gun registry message, in a cartoon balloon, is simple — «Gun criminal?

The whole thing is just another fiasco like the «gun registry» and will do no more that it did... cost a lot of money, waste a lot of time and solve nothing.

This portfolio makes as much sense as the ill - fated and ill - conceived long gun registry and look where that is now.

It is analagous to the useless gun registry.

We've designed this for Realtors and home buyers, Let's not recreate a long gun registry with too much government input.

What about the gun registry?

I would like to take this one step further and have a national registry (no worse than the failed gun registry — oops was that my outside voice slamming politicians?)

Over time this makes the gun registry look like childs play.

Not exact matches

It established a registry of all guns owned in the country and required a permit for all new firearm purchases.

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

The NFA established a registry of all guns owned in the country and required a permit for all new firearm purchases.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.