Don't tell me, let me guess. It was Breitkreuz!!!
The OBSCENE RIGHT-WING MISOGYNIST PIECE OF SHIT who LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH for years about the start-up costs of the firearms registry, until someone finally figured out his game.
That's whom you're quoting at me?
Congratulations!
I don't say "he's a winger". Nonsense USAmerican talk.
But no, of course, it was John Williams. Note how he does NOT quote his fellow Alberta MP Breitkreuz, the one whose LIE that the start-up costs were $2B has gone around the world more times than that. Or repeat the lie. Interesting, eh?
But yeah, you go ahead and quote a filthy right-wing Reform Party MP if you like. How his opinions could be "true" or "untrue", I dunno.
"poorly planned, poorly managed and driven by politics"? An awful lot of things in government are poorly planned and poorly managed. Hell, the US would have no military if poor planning and poor management were a criterion for cancelling. But no one will disagree that the Liberal Party has a talent for poor management and bad spending.
Driven by politics? Well, his opinions certainly are.
The establishment of the firearms registry was driven by public opinion, the public being who elects politicians, politicians therefore being driven by public opinion. We do call that "politics", don't we?
"But it also allowed a minority to hijack the issue, sometimes using mistruths, said Flumian."
"Mistruths". Lies, I think.
Williams spent most of his career investigating how much the government paid civil servants for clothing that was damaged on the job and such like things -- "waste! waste! waste!" -- so his real right-wingery isn't in evidence much in things on the net. (He denounced MPs' pensions his entire career, then when he retired he began to draw his in full so he could work allegedly full-time for free for a global organization against political corruption. Does anyone see irony?)
Obviously, to one of his ilk, virtually ALL government spending is waste, and ANY spending on a firearms registry in particular is waste.
http://www.egale.ca/index.asp?lang=E&menu=21&item=400John Williams, MP (Reform/Canadian Alliance):
“Going back to the dawn of history and even before, society has organized its way in solid, committed unions between men and women. That is the way in which every society in the world has organized itself. There must be something in it.”
http://www.egale.ca/index.asp?item=425At last year’s Reform Party policy convention, a motion affirming the right of Canadians to equality was explicitly amended to remove any reference to the right of Canadians to be protected from discrimination.
Mr. John Williams, MP:
"That is why I find it repulsive. It is not only the fact that sexual orientation is in here which I find repulsive but that a few Canadians are being told that they are entitled to special treatment."
misplaced apostrophe fixed