Gun Policy News
Hiding Good Report on Gun Registry 'Backfired' on Canadian Government
1 June 2010
Record (Ontario), Editorial
The federal Conservatives have some explaining to do about the way they apparently hid a 2008 report on the gun registry until after a key vote in the House of Commons. Now, this strategy has seems to have backfired on the government.
By law, the government was supposed to table the report to Parliament within 15 sitting days after receiving it. The office of Peter Van Loan, the minister of public safety last year, had said the minister received the report on Oct. 9,... (GunPolicy.org)