I see Harper is silencing critics of his plan to get rid of the registry.
Chief Superintendent Cheliak who supports the regs. as a tool in the RCMP work is being let go as his desires do not mesh with the Kings. But he is not the first critic to be silenced by Harper.
Victims ombudsman
Head statistician
Military public complaints commissioner
RCMP comp. comm.
Nuclear safety regulator
Diplomat Richard Colvin
etc. etc. So much for being an open and honest party and leader of this democratic country???
Posted by: Eagleone on August 23 2010 9:06 PM
I agree with Harper on removing the gun registry, as it is essential to our future freedom from government tyranny as a country.
I say cut out the hunter bull story though and lets be honest... this is a matter about personal safety and above that the need for a government to always fear its citizens in order to keep them honest before we would ever actually require our rights to guns to begin with. I would argue that is essentially why anyone really owns a gun. All this talk that is a right only for hunters has no place in a free country where citizens are allowed to protect themselves from violence.
That said I will also agree that Harper never keeps his word and words are only things to use to influence votes for elections. The Triple EEEE Senate, regional autonomy (HST contradiction), openness and transparency of government, balanced budgets (record deficit), and all the hot button social issues are merely ways of dividing people up and stealing votes for party power.
Currently we have the Harper Arctic sovereignty danger. Its another in his fusillade of lies when he says he sees it as his duty to protect Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. Just last month at the G-20 he stressed that Canada is no longer a sovereign nation and that we are in the new era of 'enlightened sovereignty'... ie NWO sovereignty as granted by the IMF, WTO, WHO, UN, NATO and all the other multinational unelected world bodies. Harper's new 'enlightened sovereignty', as it relates to the Arctic, is to allow the international oil consortium's legal cover to drill for oil in our Arctic waters... and has nothing at all to do with actually protecting the Arctic as a vital Canadian natural extension of our sovereign country.
Posted by: pansy on August 24 2010 7:49 AM
I agree with the cartoon, the criminals don't register their guns
the registry only attacks the honest, hard working people
Posted by: hood rich on August 24 2010 2:52 PM
The registry lists more than 500 homes within Edmonton city limits that have 20 or more guns. Pretty useless information to police?
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