3/27/2006

Gun News from Canada

From guns to Kyoto, Canadian Liberals are rethinking some of their past policies, or at least how they plan on accomplishing their goals.

PUBLICATION: Belleville Intelligencer
DATE: 2006.03.27
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Local
PAGE: A1 / Front
BYLINE: James Wallace
SOURCE: The Canadian Press
WORD COUNT: 579

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Majority favours scrapping gun registry, poll shows

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There is broad public support for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to dismantle the former Liberal government's controversial national gun registry, shows a poll by SES Research/ Osprey Media. More than half of Ontario voters -- 55 per cent -- either strongly or somewhat support Harper's campaign promise to end the program intended in part to curb gun-related crime.

"It's pretty clear the public preference is to scrap the gun registry and for Stephen Harper to deliver on that promise," said Nik Nanos, president of SES Research. . . .

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PUBLICATION: National Post
DATE: 2006.03.27
EDITION: All but Toronto
SECTION: News
PAGE: A1 / Front
BYLINE: Juliet O'Neill
SOURCE: CanWest News Service
DATELINE: OTTAWACANADA
WORD COUNT: 587

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Key Liberal slams Martin government strategies: Some 'bizarre': Axworthy

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OTTAWA - The man the Liberals have assigned to assemble their blueprint for party renewal says the defeated government's national daycare program was "a deathbed repentance," the gun registry was "an administrative disaster" and the response to the sponsorship scandal was "bizarre."

The blunt-talking Tom Axworthy, a former aide to Pierre Trudeau who teaches at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., also says the former government's Kyoto policy was not only difficult to understand, "it wasn't real anyway."

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