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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (284)	12/5/2002 4:17:45 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

bang bang Liberal bid for additional $72-million misfires By ALLISON DUNFIELD Globe and Mail Update The Liberals have postponed their request for an additional $72-million for the federal gun registry, which already has massive cost overruns, according to a report by the Auditor-General. The Liberals received unanimous consent from all parties in the House of Commons to remove the $72-million from the government's supplementary estimates. A vote was supposed to be held Thursday evening in the Commons on the Justice Department's request as part of the votes on supplementary estimates — money Parliament requests for unforeseen program costs. But Mr. Cauchon said during Question Period that "We can postpone the vote on the $72-million to give us time to see the audit." (After the damning report by the Auditor-General which accused the Justice Department of hiding cost overruns in the new firearms registry, the cost of which is expected to be $1-billion instead of the $119-million forecast, Mr. Cauchon said his department would conduct an external audit). globeandmail.com