Quebec lays legal framework for gun registry

Posted By: Angelica Montgomery · 2/19/2013 6:06:00 PM

The PQ has tabled a bill that sets out a legal framework for a Quebec long gun registry.

The province still has no guarantee that it will get access to the federal data, and may not get a final decision on the matter for some time.

Still, the public security minister says he wants to have a law ready to pass as soon as a registry is available. "We can't find ourselves in a legal void," he says. "We couldn't wait for a favourable judgement to come."

The bill will require all long guns that are not already registered in the old database to be registered under the new Quebec system.

Minister Bergeron says he's unsure how much a Quebec registry will cost, but he says it will likely be a few million dollars in the initial stages.

He also won't say whether the province will forge ahead without the federal information.

However, Bergeron does say he's confident Quebec will win.

Photo: La Presse

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  1. mike d posted on 02/19/2013 06:36 PM
    It will cost 100 million. Did it not cost the Feds 1 billion. Do the math. what a waste.
  2. Joe posted on 02/19/2013 08:39 PM
    This gun registry is a feel good law that will have little impact. They just want to win brownie points with the special interest victim groups.The Federal government should bad all sells of handguns and semiautomatic guns. The only gun that should be sold is hunting rifles.
  3. clint posted on 02/19/2013 10:50 PM
    Actually with the transfer payments the other provinces will end up paying for this.
  4. LMAO posted on 02/20/2013 06:57 AM
    I do believe their is nothing wrong with registering fire arms but at a time when history shows it would not have prevented any of the tragedies that happened in Quebec does this government not think this money is not better served by putting it into the healthcare system?
    Way more people are killed and injured by drunk drivers who are allowed to repeat their offences time after time with little or no real punishment, why is their demise less important when more of them are killed.
    This will end up costing well over 1 billion dollars which could easily fix a lot of the waiting lists.
  5. Bill posted on 02/20/2013 10:35 AM
    What a waste of public funds and resources! First of all firearms fall under federal jurisdiction not provincial, Second this province can't afford it. anyone who wants to buy a gun, can just drive over to Ontario and purchase one. The federal gun registry was a failure from the beginning why do they think that a provincial one would work? So police officers would know if the person in a house has a gun? really? that's the excuse they are using now? Police will never know whats in someones home with or without a registry, or is it some other bigger plan of this socialist state? Just an other fine example on how this government has no idea what they are doing just trying to control the herd, hmmm create fear like they do in the US and the sheep will run. How about putting those funds into health care? How about Mental health care? proper services that the province needs, instead of burning it. Language police, Language Laws, Gun registry.... Just waiting for the English Book Burning in Victoria Square.
  6. Alex Lachance posted on 02/20/2013 12:40 PM
    Pauline Marois cut Cancer research funds, but is now ready to invest millions in a gun registry.
    Since when hunting rifles kills more people than cancer ?
    How can a piece of paper can prevent a shootout ?
    What a bunch of control freaks who are literally wasting Quebecker taxes. Ignoring the provinces priority and running after the wrong guys. +12h waiting time in hospital,+6 months wait to meet a family doctor, inhuman condition in CHLD, falling apart infrastructures,No consequence to Corruption ...
    This government is a real joke. They are the Cancer in this province non wonder they cut the research funds...
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