Toronto Star: Liberals soften on gun law

[friendly_iconoclast]

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/721430--liberals-soften-on-gun-law?bn=1

Liberals soften on gun law
November 05, 2009

Tonda MacCharles

OTTAWA–In a surprising softening of Liberal policy, party leader Michael Ignatieff says penalties for violating requirements of the long-gun registry could be "decriminalized" as part of an effort to broaden its legitimacy in the eyes of rural Canadians.

Ignatieff's statement set the stage for a vote hours later in the House of Commons in which a majority of MPs voted, for the first time in 14 years, to give "approval in principle" to a bill to kill the long-gun registry.

In a 164-137 vote, MPs – including 12 New Democrats, eight Liberals, and one independent – agreed to give second reading to a private member's bill sponsored by Conservative Candice Hoeppner (Portage-Lisgar).

That means the bill goes to committee for more study and explosive debate more than a decade after the gun registry's creation, before coming back for a final decision by the Commons and the Senate....

Poor, poor Iggy. Stuck between ideologues in Van, GTA, and Montreal and those wanting to win elections elsewhere in
Canada....

[Captain Hilts]

1. "Ideologues" only in GTA, Van and Montreal???? Live and learn...nt

[aikoaiko]

2. Now that is what you call "back pedaling"

:applause:

[OttavaKarhu]

3. Now let's watch for the NDP's reaction n/t