$527 MILLION WASTED ON GUN REGISTRY COMPUTER CONTRACTS
“Will it take the Auditor General or a ‘Gomery’ to find out why it cost so much?”

Ottawa – Today, Garry Breitkreuz, M.P. for Yorkton-Melville and Conservative Firearms Critic, released a 14-page document listing more than $527 million in computer contracts issued by the Canada Firearms Centre since 1997. The 133 contracts and contract amendments were issued to five companies. “How can the gun registry computer systems possibly cost more than half a billion dollars?” asked Breitkreuz. “The size of these numbers never ceases to amaze me. After all, it cost only $8 million to register 40 million cows and that registry actually works.”

The documents (see link below) obtained through an Access to Information Act request show the following:

“This isn’t all the computer contracts, but these are the biggest players in the gun registration scheme,” said Breitkreuz. “Major sub-contractors on the project include Bell, NexInnovations, Aliant, and Compaq, but we don’t know the total value of their contracts yet.”

“This has the potential to be an even bigger scandal than Adscam. We hope the Auditor General will answer many of our fiscal questions when she tables the financial update of the firearms fiasco in February. Failing that, I’m afraid it’s going to take another public enquiry to get to the bottom of this mess,” concluded Breitkreuz.

Canada Firearms Centre 14-Page ATI Response – File: A-2005-0035
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/publications/2005_new/29.pdf

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Le 15 novembre 2005 - 527 MILLIONS DE DOLLARS GASPILLÉS POUR LES CONTRATS
INFORMATIQUES DU REGISTRE DES ARMES À FEU