WHAT
THE LIBERALS FAILED TO TELL US ABOUT
THE COST AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GUN REGISTRY!
By
Garry Breitkreuz, MP – March 23, 2004
Q-7(a)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public how long it will take and
how much it will cost to fully implement the firearms program;
Q-7(b)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public how much it will cost to
maintain the program every year after it is fully implemented;
Q-7(c)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public how much the direct and
indirect costs will be for all government departments and agencies;
Q-7(d)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public how much all transfers to
the provinces and municipalities will cost;
Q-7(e)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public how much the contracts
with private companies will cost;
Q-7(f)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public how much all grants and
contributions will cost;
Q-7(g)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public what the “major
additional costs” identified by the Auditor General; namely compliance costs
and enforcement costs, have been up to this date and what they will be in the
future; and
Q-7(h)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public what have been and will be
the costs to the economy?
Q-14(c)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public what is the total number
of crimes that were solved as a result of these successful firearms traces;
Q-14(d)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public what is the total number
of court orders enforced using the information from the gun registry; and
Q-14(e)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public what is the total number
of registered and unregistered firearms seized as a result of the enforcement of
these court orders?
Q-15(a)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public what is the total number
of domestic homicides;
Q-15(b)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public what is the total number
of domestic homicides committed with firearms, by type of firearm and whether
the firearm was registered or not;
Q-15(c)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public how many of the suspected
murderers were licensed to own firearms; and
Q-15(d)
The LIBERALS FAILED to tell Parliament and the public in each case in which the
homicide was committed with a registered firearm, why did the gun registry fail
to prevent the murder?
Q-16
The LIBERALS FAILED to justify to Parliament and the public its past, current
and planned spending on a long-gun registry when Statistics Canada’s Annual
Homicide Reports for 2000 (Table 6, page 9) and 2002 (Table 8, page 16) show
that the use of handguns in firearm homicides has been steadily increasing from
26.9% in 1974 to 63.6% in 2002, and that, conversely, firearm homicides with
rifles and shotguns, which only started to be registered on December 1, 1998,
dropped steadily from 65.8% to 24.8% over the same 28-year period?
Breitkreuz’s Questions
and McLellan’s Responses – Hansard Pages 1519–1520
http://www.cssa-cila.org/garryb/questions/mar-22-2004-written.htm