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Hansard • Number 032
Thursday,
November 25, 2004
Mr. Garry Breitkreuz
(Yorkton—Melville, CPC): Mr.
Speaker, earlier this month the entire country spent a day remembering all our
veterans who took up arms, and fought and died for the rights and freedoms we
enjoy in Canada today.
Last week one of
those veterans called my office to complain that he had just received a demand
for $60 from the Canada Firearms Centre. Apparently, this $2 billion sinkhole is
so hard up for cash that now it is sending our vets a bill for $60 to renew
their firearms licences. Why do Liberals think we will all be safer if our brave
veterans have a licence to own their guns? These are the same people who had
guns thrust into their hands and were asked to defend our freedom and democracy.
At the same time,
the government is giving free licence renewals to 770,000 gun owners in Canada.
Why could the Liberals not find it in their hard hearts to extend this free
offer to our veterans? This is a shame. Lest we forget, 2005 is the Year of the
Veteran.
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