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The much beleaguered Canadian gun registry appears to be on its last legs. Passed by the Chretien administration ages ago, the legislation requires most Canadian gun owners to register their firearms with the government, theoretically for safety and “accountability” reasons. Gun owners themselves have strongly resisted the measure since day one, however, claiming that registration is arduous, and unfairly casts state suspicion on the law-abiding. Bad guys willing to commit gun crimes will obviously never bother to register their guns, so why waste so much money ($2 billion and counting) to obsessively police the least-threatening subset of gun owners?
The Conservative Party has long promised to repeal the legislation, and in an upcoming vote in the House of Commons, their caucus will attempt to pass a motion to do just that. But in our wonderful minority parliament situation, the Conservatives can only pass bills with the support of another party, and clearly the Liberals, who usually ally with the CPC, are not willing to endorse the destruction of one of their most cherished social programs.
All eyes thus turn to the NDP, and their leader, Jack Layton. Though left-wing on most economic issues, the New Democratic caucus is actually fairly diverse — certainly moreso than the Liberal caucus — and contains MPs from many different geographic communities. More than few members represent rural districts where gun ownership is taken fairly seriously — by lefties as well as righties.
In order to save face, Layton has toyed with two options: 1) let his caucus members vote however they want on the gun registry, which shouldn’t be a big news story, but of course it is in the context of the stupid Canadian parliamentary system, or 2) introduce motions to water down the registry, but not kill it outright, and let everyone be a winner! A suggested way for the latter objective to be achieved would be to introduce some sort of double-standard clause, whereby urban gun owners would be regulated differently than rural ones, and thus appease the city-dwelling NDP voters who are more likely to advocate extreme anti-gun positions.
It’s a rare moment in Canadian politics when the NDP really has much influence over anything of substance, and this could end up being one of Mr. Layton’s most consequential decisions in his lengthy leadership. What do you think he should do?
September 21st, 2010 at 3:57 pm
I admit I haven't paid too much attention the gun registry, but I _did_ want to say that as an avid gamer, this comic made me laugh out loud. Fantastic job! XD
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