Retain Long Gun Registry Bill C-19 existing records, Mississauga Council debate

December 14, 2011 Mississauga Council debate: Bill C-19 Long Gun Registry

Mississauga News
Dec 16, 2011

City calls on Ottawa to keep gun registry

The City of Mississauga will ask Ottawa to reconsider its plans to scrap the national long-gun registry and to save the data already collected.

Brampton-Mississauga & District Labour Council president Motilall Sarjoo was joined by Canadian Labour Congress member Gogi Bhandal and Canadian Auto Workers Local 1285 Women's Committee chair Gwen Campbell at Council on Wednesday to ask councillors to press the federal government to backtrack on Bill C-19. The bill seeks to scrap the registry.

"The Brampton-Mississauga & District Labour Council and Canadian Labour Congress support the long-gun registry as an effective tool for workplace and community safety," said Bhandal. "Eliminating it will put Canadians at risk."

Bhandal said police across the country use the registry more than 17,000 times a day. She noted there are seven million registered guns in Canada.

Ward 5 Councillor Bonnie Crombie said she can't understand why Ottawa is trying to eliminate the registry.

"It's beyond me why you have to register your dog, your boat, your house, your car, but not your gun," said Crombie. "I just don't understand the shortsightedness of disbanding the registry and requiring the data to be destroyed."

Councillors unanimously passed a motion asking Ottawa to reconsider and allow provinces to keep using information currently in the registry's database.

Mayor Hazel McCallion said she doesn't understand why Ottawa would want to eliminate a valuable tool for police.

"I find it hard to believe that when the police chiefs of Canada and all the police forces don't want it to disappear, and for justified reasons,"
the federal government won't acquiesce, said McCallion.

cclay@mississauga.net

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[adsabine1]

@MascotAL I was just going to post almost exactly what you said, I am surprised how ignorant the majority of people are regarding criminals and that they own illegal guns, cops would be ignorant assuming anyone wouldn't have a gun, you are 100% right! I could have bought a rocket launcher, can you imagine how many women a nut could kill with that? Did I mention that the rocket launcher wasn't registered?lol these anti gun people annoy me with there ignorance, I converted a few anti gun people.

[590spx]

where do you get all your misinformation, god bless steven harper ,pending approval ,lmfao,

[590spx]

thats why we need conclealed carry , a sheepdogg could have saved some sheep , and why does nobody remember the male who shot, shame on you, antigunn people suck

[specialforces99]

Lol you would think someone as old as Hazel might have a little more common sense... Complete left wing liberal.

[pittsky]

I like watching socialists like this bemoan individual liberty. Freedom is scary for those who crave the nanny state.

[MascotAL]

What does the long gun registry have to do with the women who died in Montreal? The gun used to kill those women was a registered weapon.

Police are using the registry every day because they are told to use it as part of their procedures Just because somebody doesn't have a gun registered in their name doesn't mean they don't have a gun. Therefore it doesn't matter what the registry says, the cops must assume everybody has a gun. Tell me again. how does it help police?

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[JT436]

More people died and where assaulted in domestic deputes by a common 16 or 14oz hammers than any gun of any kind in a given year even in the US, this is according to restricted Justice documents.I am impartial and don't own any firearms and have no criminal record. Gun dealers have what they call a green book in existence since 1977 still in effect firearms are recorded in, such records are permanent by the business in question. The key is safe storage that means gun safes not trigger locks.