Quebec court backs gun registry, sets stage for federal legal battle

[jpak]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/21/quebec-court-backs-gun-registry-sets-stage-for-federal-legal-battle/

MONTREAL — The province’s gun-control advocates were buoyed Friday by a strongly worded Quebec Superior Court judgment that recognized the recently abolished long-gun registry as an effective and economical crime prevention tool, laying the groundwork for a long legal battle with Ottawa.

The federal government reacted quickly and decisively, in what will no doubt lead to a Supreme Court showdown over the future of the divisive national registry. It said the ruling doesn’t diminish the government’s resolve to scrap it “once and for all.”

Last week, Judge Marc-Andre Blanchard extended to June a temporary injunction that orders the Conservative government to continue registering long guns in Quebec and prevents it from destroying 15 years of data collected over the lifetime of the national registry.

His 19-page written judgment, made public Friday, gives his reasons for that order. A hearing for a permanent injunction is scheduled for three days beginning June 11.

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[DrDan]

1. BRAVO Quebec Superior Court!!!

[shadowrider]

2. Canada. And I should give a sh*t why?

Let them do what they will. Doesn't and won't affect me.

[AH1Apache]

3. I give a fuck about what a Canadian court says because.............?

[jpak]

4. Because similar stories on CA's gun registry were posted earlier in the Gungeon by Gungeoneers

yup

[gejohnston]

5. It seems that all Quebec is asking

is for the RCMP to give the Quebec database to the province before they delete the entire database. From there, the Sûreté du Québec can administer it within Quebec.
There is no evidence the registry actually did anything useful. The non compliance rate was high, was expensive and it was never seriously enforced. You take it home and register it on line with the RCMP. The licensing was and still be enforced.