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Creekside (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Thursday, a reporter doggedly tried to wring from Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan exactly how long he sat on the RCMP's Firearms Commissioner's Report in favour of keeping the long-gun registry so that MPs would not have that info prior to passing the bill to scrap it. The report was released two days after the vote. I've omitted PVL's initial 12 responses here as they bore no relation...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Thanks to Omar for this: The public safety minister meets the press. It doesn't go well: Question: How long have you had the report from the Commissioner of Firearms? Hon. Peter Van Loan: The report from the Commissioner of Firearms has to be tabled tomorrow which it will be. I know that some information - some information on it will be coming out shortly. Some of it has already been released...
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Peter Van Loan on the gun registry report: "What you're going to see (Friday) in this report produced by the national firearms centre ... is that the statistics I just gave you were not included. Whoever put it together didn't put in there the information that only 2.4 per cent of those 3.5 million queries (to the registry) were actually related to information about a long-gun registration...
Impolitical (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
And it doesn't go so well. Deservedly, for Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan who acknowledged today that he did indeed hold back a 2008 RCMP report that is favourably disposed toward the long gun registry so that MPs did not have it in their hands when they voted last night: "Minister grilled over timing of the release of a gun registry report;" " Scrum Theatre: Who wants...
The View From North Central Idaho (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... at the national firearms registry so you should ask them why that information wasn't there. Peter Van Loan Public Safety Minister, Canada Battle heats up over gun registry: Minister suggests staff of national database are hiding information to ensure its survival [If the staff did this it certainly wouldn't be the first time the anti-gun people told half-truths to justify infringing upon...
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... to kill it. Full report available if you click here .. …and here’s “public safety Minister” Peter Van Loan trying to lamely explain why he didn’t release it.. and the media aren’t impressed: UPDATE : More police support of the registry comes out today as well, as noted by John Geddes of Macleans : The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police put out a news release that makes the case—as...
Cowboys for Social Responsibility (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In response to this post about Peter Van Loan's belated tabling of the 2008 Report of the Commissioner of Firearms , one of Kady O'Malley's commenters asked why the RCMP Firearms registry was playing hide the penny with pre -Harper era reports from the Commissioner of Firearms. That's a good question. Why would the reports no longer be available in the place where interested people would look...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Peter Van Loan, Thursday. I received it and looked at just recently, in recent days. Toronto Star, today. Responding by email to questions from the Star, RCMP Sgt. Greg Cox said late Friday the force submitted its 2008 firearms report on Oct. 9, four weeks ago.
Cowboys for Social Responsibility (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Peter Van Loan wants Canadians to believe that police don't use long gun registry information. His latest out of context statement is that only 2.4% of all police queries to the Canadian Firearms Registry Online (CFRO), the police gun registry information system , were about long guns. In 2008, there were more than 3.4 million police queries to CFRO accoring to the RCMP . 2.4% of of that total...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Strolling casually around the House of Commons foyer yesterday, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan happens upon a group of reporters. A delightful exchange of pleasantries follows. Question: How long have you had the report from the Commissioner of Firearms? Hon. Peter Van Loan: The report from the Commissioner of Firearms has to be tabled tomorrow which [...]
NRA-ILA Site Updates (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan, is under fire for sitting on a 2008 RCMP report on the Canadian Firearms Program, suggested staff at the national firearms registry are deliberately hiding information in order to ensure the registry's survival.
Liberal Arts and Minds (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... is all about. To those who follow, I do have something to say about the gun registry vote and Van Loan's delay of the report, the stupid partisan EAP signs, Lisa Raitt, H1N1, the Olympic torch run/stops, the AG's report...okay, there is a lot to talk about. I have been paying attention. In addition to Duffy's idiocy, feel free to bring up any or all of these subjects in comments. Will be...
Impolitical (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A timely report from the independent Auditor General whom Conservatives have loved in recent years: "Federal disaster plan comes up short: auditor general." Public Safety Canada comes in for criticism, said department being under Peter Van Loan's leadership. Seems not much has been done on emergency preparedness although Peter professes earnestly that he'll now do his homework. As...
BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Susan Delacourt finds a news story on one of the first gun registry votes, from 1995: Reform MP Stephen Harper (Calgary West), touted by some as a future Reform party leader, bucked his caucus and voted with the government, as did the Bloc Quebecois. She's also got hold of a copy of that report that Peter Van Loan has been suppressing: It's spending less, attracting more registrants and police...
bastard.logic (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by matttbastard Yesterday, the office of Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan released the following statement, explaining why the Harpercons were blocking the release of a Canada Firearms Centre (CAFC) performance report on the Long Gun Registry: “Canadians don’t need another report to know that the long-gun registry is very efficient at harassing law-abiding farmers and outdoors...
