BILL CASEY LAUNCHES WEBSITE TO RECORD GUN REGISTRY PROBLEMS

> House of Commons Debates
>
> May 15, 2003
>
> STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
>
> Unedited copy – not official until printed in Hansard
>
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>
> Mr. Bill Casey (Cumberland-Colchester, PC): Mr. Speaker, I am
pleased
to
> announced that Canadians now have a new venue to describe their problems
in
> registering their firearms with the gun registry. This is through a new
> website just launched at www.gunregistry.ca.
>
> Although the registry system has cost over a billion dollars it
still
> does not work and we want to hear about the problems people are having
> registering their firearms.
>
> Earlier this month the Solicitor General said, “We want to talk
directly
> to those people who have problems and we want to fix those problems”.
Mr.
> Minister, through you Mr. Speaker, we are here to help.
>
> Since the gun registry site started we have already had a lot of
> response. We are hearing from Canadians who registered one gun and
received
> four registrations or who registered five guns and got two registrations
or
> none at all.
>
> We urge Canadians who have experienced problems to log on to
> “gunregistry.ca” and outline their experiences. We will bring all of
these
> issues raised by frustrated Canadians to the attention of the Solicitor
> General.
>
> We in the PC Party intend to hold him to his word and ensure that
these
> issues brought to his attention are addressed.