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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   "We will not tolerate . . . ."   Sounds a whole lot like 'Wir werden nicht   
   dulden!", doesn't it?   
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   Canadian Press | October 17, 2014   
      
   ‘I don’t want to feed paranoia,’ but bureaucrats trying to bring back gun   
   registry ‘through back door,’ PM says   
      
      
   He says he doesn’t want to sound paranoid, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper   
   is   
   concerned his own federal bureaucracy is trying to bring back the long gun   
   registry “through the back door.”   
      
   Harper courted gun owners and anglers Friday in northern Ontario with a   
   carefully stage-managed question and answer session with invited   
   representatives of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters.   
      
   Sault Ste Marie, where the prime minister is today, taking part in a Q-and-A   
   session moderated by the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters — an event   
   organized inside the Prime Minister’s Office. The government’s record on   
   wetlands conservation and support for gun owners will not escape mention.   
      
   Killing the long gun registry was a long-standing Conservative government   
   promise — and fundraising cash cow. Now that it’s dead and buried, a   
   governing   
   party in election mode is reviving alleged threats of its resurrection in   
   repeated donation appeals to Conservative faithful.   
      
   The government introduced new legislation last month to simplify gun licensing,   
   and also has loudly denounced and reversed an RCMP move to prohibit a couple of   
   guns police say can too easily be converted into fully automatic weapons.   
      
   “I don’t want to feed paranoia, but as prime minister I can tell you I   
   share   
   the frustrations of our caucus members,” said Harper, before alluding to   
   “bureaucratic initiatives that we think are effectively trying to put the   
   long   
   gun registry back in through the back door.”   
      
   “This is not something we can tolerate.”          <<=====   [ಠ益ಠ]   
      
   He said the government would ensure, in future, that such measures “can’t   
   be   
   done without some degree of political oversight.”   
      
   However, documents obtained by the CBC through the Access to Information Act   
   show the RCMP notified the public safety minister well in advance about — and   
   sought input on — its decision to ban the Swiss Arms Classic Green and the   
   CZ858 rifles last winter. Harper himself was briefed in May 2013 on issues   
   surrounding the reclassification of firearms, according to a heavily redacted   
   document obtained by The Canadian Press.   
      
   Still, resurrecting the ghost of the gun registry is good politics for a   
   Conservative government that already appears to be in full flight toward a date   
   with voters in 2015.   
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