I must take issue with your comment criticizing the MP’s who voted to abolish the (long) gun registry. The Star, and other media, has criticized Steven Harper for controlling his MP’s; here we have criticisms against Michael Ignatieff for not doing so. Which is it? “You cannot have your cake and also eat it”.
MP’s owe their allegiances to their constituents, first and foremost. MP’s are ultimately responsible to those who voted them in. Liberal MP’s from the Prairie Provinces would respond to their local voters who are mostly against registration of their long guns. Rural westerners are used to keeping rifles and shotguns around, and resent the bureaucratic intrusion on their way of life. MP’S do well to listen to the will of their home base. That’s what we call democracy.
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