...With One Of His 'Accomplishments'?
"....The Conservatives proudly point to a string of promises that have been kept (during the first year of their majority): passage of the omnibus crime bill; the abolition of the long-gun registry; and the dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board..."
"...The National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful lobbying group in the United States that advocates fewer gun controls, has been actively involved in trying to abolish Canada's long-gun registry for more than a decade, CBC News has learned.
Documents and correspondence obtained by the CBC show the NRA has provided logistical and tactical support to organizations such as the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA), established in 1998 to lobby Ottawa to shut down the registry.
The NRA provides the Canadian gun lobby group with "tremendous amounts of logistical support," and while the NRA's constitution prevents them from providing money, "they freely give us anything else," Tony Bernardo, an Ontario gun advocate and CILA's executive director, said in Canadian Firearms Digest in July 2001...
{snippety doo-dah}
...In 2000, the NRA paid $100,000 for an infomercial about what it called "the Canadian situation" that aired on The National Network in the U.S., according to Bernardo, who appeared in the video....
It cautioned gun owners the registry was a government plot to find out how many guns there were in order to seize them and leave citizens helpless to defend themselves.
Bernardo, a frequent guest on NRA chat shows updating U.S. gun owners on the fight to kill the Canadian registry, said the NRA was instrumental in helping him set up his Canadian lobby group, CILA, the lobbying arm of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA), and a mirror group of the Institute for Legislative Action, the NRA's lobbying arm....
{snippety doodle-dandy}
....In 2005, NRA strategist Glen Caroline came to Canada to provide logistical support in the form of "political action" training for an upcoming federal election.
"Who better to show us how to protect our rights," said the CSSA's promotional material for the event, "than the most powerful lobby group in the world, the National Rifle Association?"
In 2006, former NRA president Sandra Froman was the featured keynote speaker at the CSSA annual meeting in Toronto. Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz co-hosted the town hall meeting for the event.
Earlier this year (2010), Breitkreuz also found himself in hot water when a news release from his office called the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police a "cult" and "politically motivated" for supporting the long-gun registry. He later apologized and forced the aide who sent it to resign.
That aide, Brant Scott, now works for CSSA as its communications director....
So....
When you hear the Hard-Cons whacking environmentalists up the side of the head over and over and over again for taking foreign money you may wish to keep the following mantra in mind....
"Projection, much?"
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2 comments:
Hello RossK.
The cons are trying to make way more hay on this than they actually cut. Sounds like a really big deal, but go try purchasing a firearm from a dealer or a fundraiser or anything other than a private transaction and you will need an FAC or PAL. Let a few folks that had heirloom firearms off the hook that were never registered and never would have been. The hipocritical part is the help they enjoyed from foreign special interests in doing so. They won't save a bunch of money on admin, as they are doing the same work as before. This thing is way more hype than substance. As a gun owner myself the registry didn't prove to be much of a deal really. And generally speaking the tools used in the Hunger Games are also very effective for a little target practice every now and again.
Ross, let us not forget how much foreign money is involved in the promotional program for the tar sands and the icky goo pipeline across central/northern BeeCee. Much of the money promoting this comes from the same non-Canadian (ie Chinese, US) that will reap the profits from exploiting the idjits in Alberty!
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