Canada to end registry for rifles and shotguns

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/15/tories-call-out-opposition-on-long-gun-registry

OTTAWA - Triumphal Conservatives are celebrating the success of a 17-year effort to scrap long-gun registry.

Armed with a majority in the Commons, the Tories were able to pass Bill C-19 to end the registry which is so hated in much of rural Canada - something they weren't able to do in their previous mandate.

MPs had several parties planned to celebrate.

A cheery Conservative MP Leon Benoit cracked a pun about the drinks that would be served at one of the parties he'd attend.

[Canuckistanian]

1. And yet, they've just introduced the most invasive internet spying (er, "monitoring") law ever seen

So much for "government prying into your business".

Hypocrisy now reigns supreme in Canada.

[laundry_queen]

2. Are you surprised, seeing who's PM?

blah!

Got into an argument with conservative parents and brother over the weekend about the gun registry. "Cost too much" is their only reason.

I think the cons are in for a surprise regarding the internet spying thing - that freaks the crap out of tons of people, even my con parents.