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Opposition Leader's Refusal to Crack Whip May Kill Canada's Gun Registry
30 August 2010
Globe, Globe & Mail / Ottawa Notebook (Toronto), Blog
Jack Layton will not tell his MPs how to vote on a motion to kill a Conservative private-member's bill that would scrap the gun registry.
His refusal to whip his caucus, as Michael Ignatieff has done with the Liberals, virtually assures the motion will fail and Bill C-391, which was introduced by Tory MP Candice Hoeppner to end the long-gun registry, will succeed.
Mr. Layton is in a difficult spot: 12 of his MPs from rural ridings have told their constituents that... (GunPolicy.org)