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Saturday 18 September 2010
A tough tussle has been waged in public between those who favour the retention of the long gun registry legislation and those who want it scrapped. Harper's Tories clearly want it ended, and appear determined to achieve this, one way or the other. Stories abound of Tory MPs being whipped in private to secure passage of the private member's bill.
The Liberal leaders have decided to whip Liberal MPs on the so-called private member's bill aimed at scrapping the legislation, arguing that the legislation is a good thing, and that Harper seems to be trying to do through the backdoor of a so-called private member's bill what he dare not do through the front door of a government sponsored bill.
And Jack Layton has decided to support the right of his MPs to vote their conscience on a private member's bill and not to whip them over this bill. In doing so, Layton has tried to straddle the divide between the urban voters (who live with most gun killings and generally oppose scrapping a piece of legislation which senior police officers believe protects the lives of police and is a good thing), and rural voters (who generally support scrapping the legislation, with its criminal provisions).
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