Liberal media, here’s a conservative blogo-alert for you: remember to follow your logic and showcase this as another incident of money killing the program, rather than the people who hold the purse strings killing anything.
PUBLICATION: The Province (subscription required, link below)
DATE: 2006.04.13
EDITION: Final
SECTION: News
PAGE: A19
BYLINE: Ian BaileyTories want co-operation
with opposition on gun registry:
But if they can’t reach deal, government will ‘starve it to death’The Tories are looking for opposition support to kill the national gun registry, says the federal government’s chief political minister for B.C.
Speaking to The Province’s editorial board yesterday, Chuck Strahl acknowledged that other parties oppose the Conservative plan. “That’s why these discussions are taking place. It’s a minority parliament, so these discussions need to take place,” said Strahl, who is also agriculture minister.
If there’s no agreement, Strahl said, the Tories will kill the registry via regulations or by cutting off its funding. “You starve it to death,” he said, referring to the program that was supposed to cost taxpayers $200 million after it was introduced in 1995, but had racked up bills of $1 billion by 2005. Strahl said the budget option is “not the preferable way” to get rid of the program, but the government does not want to push a bill to end the registry that it knows will be defeated.
(Hat tip: Ross M.)
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