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To: average joe who wrote (8257)	2/15/2006 5:59:55 PM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37412

At last , from G and M today Tories paint bulls-eye on long-gun registry DAN DUGAS Canadian Press Ottawa — The Conservative government has created a committee of two cabinet ministers and a backbencher to figure out how best to kill the long-gun registry as soon as possible. Registry critic Garry Breitkreuz, who is working with Justice Minister Vic Toews and Public Security Minister Stockwell Day, said he has been given wide leeway to deal swiftly with the registry. “I wouldn't be fighting for what I'm fighting for if I didn't think that would be the case,” the Saskatchewan MP said in an interview. “We couldn't have had two better appointments because they're giving me the opportunities to put in place whatever is needed to stop the flow of money right now.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised voters during the election campaign that the long-gun registry would be scrapped and money redirected to public safety. When the Liberals added the registry to the federal gun control program in 1995, they said it would cost taxpayers no more than $2-million. But the most recent estimates put the figure in the hundreds of millions of dollars, bringing the total cost of the gun program to more than $1-billion. The Conservatives have called the registry a waste of taxpayers money that targets duck hunters rather than criminals. Mr. Breitkreuz would say little about how the government will kill the registry while maintaining background checks it promised on would-be gun owners. “I still have to work through Stockwell Day and Vic Toews so I can't tip my hand as to what we're doing but we're working on that.” The Tories promised to reinvest savings from scrapping the gun registry into hiring police and assisting victims of crime, but may find there is less cash available than meets the eye. The gun program consumes about $90-million a year in direct costs while a single campaign promise to hire an additional 1,000 Mounties would add $50-million to the federal payroll. There are no cost estimates on campaign promises such as defending victims rights and improving gun safety.

To: average joe who wrote (8257)	2/15/2006 6:31:24 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37412

The Arabs have no intention of just going away to suit you. I don't want them to go away. I want them to make a choice, of how they live, and I want them to allow me the same right. I don't care what their religion says, I have the right to make my own decisions and I allow them the same right. I am willing to defend my country, my family and my choice of religion with the same fervour and the same weapons as Islam. I don't care if Muslims are killed in the fight to defend democracy, their lives are of no consequence when freedom is threatened. I believe that should Iran develop a nuclear capability, and should they decide to use them in a first strike, that the only response should be to turn Iran into a nuclear wasteland. I believe that the first reaction to Ossama Bin Laden's strike against the US should have been the seizure of the entire assets of the Bin Laden family. I believe the sentence for the first attack on the World Trade Centre should have been death. I believe Canada should be ashamed of it's role in the support of terrorism around the world. We have financed murder and mayhem for far too many years.