PM appeals to Ont. hunters, anglers to help scrap gun registry

[CHIMO]

Last Updated: Saturday, March 21, 2009 | 10:01 PM ET

Prime Minister Stephen Harper set his sights on the federal long gun registry Saturday, asking a meeting of recreational sportsmen to help him build enough support in Parliament to scrap the registry.

Harper urged members of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters to contact opposition MPs and pressure them to support legislation that would target the six-year-old program.

"We are looking to unite a majority of MPs in repealing the long gun registry," Harper told the group in a speech in Mississauga, west of Toronto.

"The leaders of the opposition parties continue to be against this. But there are MPs in all these parties that know what we know, that law-abiding hunters and farmers are not part of the crime problem."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/21/harper-gun-registry.html

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One almost thinks that they are trying to draw blood. More likely they are campaigning for money!

Seems really funny. Everything seems quiet. Polls showing a slight increase for the Liberals. What else is there?

My take is a war chest for the coming election.

[Posteritatis]

1. Yep. The Conservatives are running attack ads in Nova Scotia already (nt)

[daleo]

2. Harper is talking out of both sides of his mouth on gun control

He doesn't actually want to try to abolish gun control, because he knows the effort would alienate urban voters, especially women. But he also has to pretend that he wants to do it, for the sake of his rural male base. Thus, this hypocritical strategy.