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Canada: Liberal Leader Ignores Calls Supporting Crime Bill

by Barry Artiste | January 25, 2008 at 04:26 am

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

A few years ago the Liberal Government when in power implemented the toothless and useless Billion dollar Gun Registry in the hopes that Canadian Criminals would flock to register their guns. Today the ruling Conservative Party is trying to put some teeth into the Liberals Failed Gun Registry by implementing a Crime bill which calls for Serious time for serious crimes involving guns. Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty, this week met his federal counterpart in Ontario which has been suffering under the spate of handgun crimes in Toronto, was looking for Federal Liberal support from Liberal Opposition Leader Stephane Dion on the Conservative Governments Crime Bill. A Crime Bill long stalled for over a year in the Senate by the Senate Liberal Majority. Liberal Opposition Leader Mr. Dion avoidance of the issue certainly speaks volumes on their stance on crime and letting the status quo remain in what is gun crimes gone wild and Canadians left to their own devices while bullets fly all around them many poorer Toronto neighbourhoods.

My Final Thought

Certainly my previous stories warning Canadians on the Opposition Liberals uncaring attitude on Crime and Punishment will not go unoticed in the next Federal Election. Hopefully the next Federal Election will see Canadians waking up and seeing the Liberals for what they are and voting enmasse to ensure Liberal candidates never see the doors of the House of Commons or Senate. As they say (Voters) if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. The Problem being rampant Crime, Gangs, Guns in Canada, Voters are the Solution in writing their Members Of Parliament requesting Support of the Conservative Governments crime Bill. That is a NO Brainer.
Below is a link of the Conservative Governments Crime Bill being ignored by the Liberal Opposition. Canadians after reading this can judge for themself if this is a Crime Bill they want, especially since the Conservative Governments party platform on Crime in part got them elected in the first place as Canadians long suffered under toothless laws with the previous Liberal Government seeing Crime increase tenfold under their reign.

http://www.justice.gc.ca/en/news/nr/2007/doc_32162.html

TORONTO -- Liberal Leader Stephane Dion cozied up to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty yesterday by taking his side in a dispute with the federal government over the redistribution of Commons seats, but stopped short of heeding the premier's call to support a stalled Conservative anti-crime bill.

McGuinty, who is facing calls for tighter gun control in the wake of two fatal shootings in Toronto, said he would ask Dion during a meeting yesterday to use Liberal influence in the Senate to expedite the bill's passage.

The proposed Tackling Violent Crimes Act, or Bill C-2, is composed of five bills that were previously before Parliament and deals with issues such as violent and gun crimes, dangerous offenders and the age of sexual consent.

"Stronger gun legislation which would serve to make our streets -- particularly here in Toronto -- safer, that's been held up for some two years now," McGuinty said.

But Dion was tight-lipped about McGuinty's request after emerging from the meeting with the premier.

Earlier in the day, Dion seemed reluctant to back mandatory jail sentences for gun crimes.

"We need to protect what we have now," he said during a roundtable with reporters, noting his main concern is to make sure current gun control protections are maintained, including the gun registry.

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Rob Walker

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at 04:36 on January 25th, 2008

Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.

The problem, as always, is that the current gov is trying to shove through their own ideas on society in a package designed to protect people. For instance, increasing the age of consent in a package designed to crack down on multiple convicted drug traffickers and gun crimes.

If they just put out a simple, effective package I'm sure it would get voted in. Instead, they want their cake and want to eat it as well.

Barry Artiste

at 04:57 on January 25th, 2008

Thanks for the Flag Rob, as well as your comments.

I see no problem of the current Government, elected by the people who voted this government in because the current government promised as their election platform a Crime Bill to reflect serious time for serious crime.

Serious time for Serious crime is something all Canadians agree upon regardless of their political affiliations.

Here is the Justice Canada Link on the Crime Bill, I think it reasonable and hopefully a deterrent on Crime.

Canadians nned to judge for themselves if this crime bill is unreasonable, I think most Canadians will agree it is not, especially the victims of violent crime and crime sprees happening in their neighbourhood,

http://www.justice.gc.ca/en/news/nr/2007/doc_32162.html

Jordan Yerman

at 06:20 on January 25th, 2008

The idea of a gun registry has always confused me: if I were a criminal, why on earth would I want to register my weapon? Surely that would make it more difficult to get away with using in the course of a crime.