The federal justice minister has withdrawn a proposal to spend another $72 million on the government’s costly and controversial gun-control registry.

Martin Cauchon has withdrawn a proposal to hold a parliamentary vote on the issue Thursday evening as many Liberal backbenchers threatened to vote with the opposition.

Ottawa. Hello. The gun registry was put in place in 1995. Protests were made by voters then. You went ahead anyway. You squandered our money. You showed us your arrogance and incompetence. I don’t have one ounce of sympathy for any public squirming you’ll go through now. It’s overdue.

Now, the possibility of Liberals breaking ranks again has put a request for for money on hold.

I can hope that Canadians that never give a second thought to a gun registry think about what this has cost our country when they go to the ballot box. I can hope the taxpayers that have been pleading with you to stop this nonsense see some justice election day.

I don’t hold the current Justice Minister as responsible as the bureaucrats and Cauchon’s political predecessors that have been ‘running’ this program and our money into the ground.

Mark Byron looks at this debacle from the perspective of Tom Ridge’s US Homeland Security data base proposals.

Has this been a Billion Dollar Leadership Battle in the Liberal camp between Jean Chretien and Paul Martin?
You guys aren’t worthy, or worth it.