These comments are direct quotations from the Hansard
documents.
Registry Fails 7 Tests
Mr.
Brian Jean (Fort McMurray—Athabasca, CPC): Mr. Speaker, while in
Whitehorse in May 2003 the Prime Minister stated that the federal gun
registry overrun represented one of the worst examples of governments run
amok. A year ago the Prime Minister announced that his new expenditure
review committee would examine it.
This committee failed the gun registry on all seven tests that the Prime
Minister devised to measure cost effectiveness. Not only is this gun
registry blowing another $119 million this year but the government now
promises that it will not be ready until 2008.
Why is the Prime Minister pouring millions of good money after bad money--
The Speaker: The hon. Deputy Prime Minister.
Hon. Anne McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety
and Emergency Preparedness, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I do not know where
the hon. member gets the notion that the gun control program is not ready.
Of course it is ready. We have registered over seven million guns and
millions of people are licensed. Over three million police inquiries have
been made to the Canadian firearms information system. This program is not
only ready, it has been up and running for some years now.
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