Ont., Que. out of sync on gun registry

[CHIMO]

OTTAWA -- More than half of Canadians in Western and Atlantic provinces support the Conservative government's intention to scrap the long-gun registry, while more than 50 per cent of people in Ontario and Quebec want the registry to remain intact, a new poll shows.

"If you look at it nationally, it's split down the middle but if you look at it regionally, absolutely not," said John Wright, senior vice-president at Ipsos Reid, which conducted the survey.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced last week the government plans to introduce legislation to scrap the long-gun registry and a one-year amnesty for gun owners who have unregistered weapons and those whose firearms licences have lapsed.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=413070a2-a77b-43ac-ade1-6bfa2805f32b&k=26708

Ontario is growing


Canada's total population is 32,270,507 people - a vast local market for any business. Ontario's population provides a large and affluent customer base within Canada's dynamic economy.

Provinces Population (in Thousands)
Ontario 12,541
Quebec 7,598

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=413070a2-a77b-43ac-ade1-6bfa2805f32b&k=26708

Numbers don't support the bullshit twisted headline.

Maybe Charest has to call his mentor and tell him to straighten out Harper. Seems like Charest is loosing on this as well as Kyoto.

Who needs enemies with friends like this in Ottawa?

[MrPrax]

1. Wow...

20 million people in Ontario and Quebec...with that many people, no wonder the police claim 5000 searches a day!! ;-)

I hated the gun registry ever since Allan Rock announced--largely because it's overblown financially (come'on down Sheila Fraser) and the idea of the gov't compling a database over above what it already has without a clear purpose--but I was surprised last week when the Tories killed it, there was a rather tepid reaction of 'who cares', with the usual suspects holding press conferences and saying precisely what they said, when they gathered around Rock during the initial announcement.

You think a couple of them would have noticed that the debate moved on to 'cost' at one point during the last 4 years...jeez talk about living in a bubble.