The following is from Canadian Alliance email, just part of it. I like the comments about the Ontario's MP meeting. Perhaps there is hope after all for the East.
Firearm Registry
New estimates released today show that enforcing the national Firearms Act could easily cost taxpayers another
$2 billion over the next 10 years. Tomorrow, the House of Commons will vote on increased spending requested by
the Department of Justice, and Jean Chretien has threatened Liberal MPs with expulsion if they vote against
additional funding. As Canadian Alliance Critic for Firearms and Property Rights, Garry Breitkreuz asks, “How can
anybody with any concern for the public purse vote another $172 million for this program when the government
won’t tell Parliament what the total cost of the firearms program is so far, and when they’ve grossly
underestimated the future costs of implementing the legislation and enforcing the law? It boggles the mind…”
Recent Successes
Hats off to Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MP Cheryl Gallant for a barn-burner of a townhall meeting last Friday in
Pembroke. Over 650 people attended; in fact, attendance was so great that they had to turn people away at the
door. Inside, our Leader and Mrs. Gallant challenged the Liberals’ inaction on Iraq and their continued funding for
the bungled firearms registry.
Looking Ahead
March 27th, 2003. Canadian Alliance Justice Critic Vic Toews holds a public townhall to discuss the
question, ‘Who’s protecting your children from sexual predators?’ (7:30pm, The Quality Parkway Inn, 327
Ontario Street, St. Catharines, ON. Contact: Warren Clarke at 905-685-8568 ).
March 29th, 2003. MP Garry Breitkreuz will be the keynote speaker at the Federation of Hunters and
Anglers Dinner in Truro, NS, speaking on the Firearm Registry Boondoggle.
March 30th, 2003. MP Rahim Jaffer will be speaking at the PanCanadian Engineering Professionals 2003
Convention in Missisauga, ON.
March 31st, 2003. MP Stockwell Day will be holding a townhall in Kitchener on “Foreign Affairs: Terrorism
or Trade?” (Contact: Craig Mason at 519-880-9253).
April 1st, 2003. MPs Stockwell Day, Jason Kenney, and Rahim Jaffer will be speaking at York University
on the subject, “Canada: Fooled by Foreign Policy”. Also speaking: B’nai Brith and the World Lebanese
Organization of Canada (7:00-9:30pm, York University, Curtis Lecture Hall ‘L’, 4700 Keele St., Toronto,
ON. Contact: Josh Cooper at 416-960-4653 or Yaakov Roth at 416-841-7684).
April 8th, 2003. Auditor General’s Report tabled in the House of Commons.
April 9th, 2003. MP Garry Breitkreuz will be holding a townhall in Lambton-Kent-Middleton on the Firearm
Registry Boondoggle (8:00pm, The Oaks Inn, Wallaceburg, ON. Contact: Brian Richardson at
519-542-1497).
April 10th, 2003. MP Garry Breitkreuz will be holding a townhall in Essex on the Firearm Registry
Boondoggle (St Mary's Parish Hall, 12016 County Rd 34, Maidstone. Contact: Paul Miner at
519-723-4116). |
