{"id":3496,"date":"2010-04-22T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:43:46","slug":"qotd-ignatieffs-gun-registry-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/qotd-ignatieffs-gun-registry-position\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Ignatieff&#8217;s gun registry position"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Ignatieff feels that by tweaking the system, he can make it more palatable to rural Canadians and less objectionable to the eight Liberals who originally voted for its abolition. He thinks that by dropping the renewal fees registered gun owners pay and making failure to register a ticketing rather than criminal violation for first-time offenders, he has struck a compromise that will allow him to rein in his caucus while still being seen as a champion of gun control.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t. Ignatieff\u2019s plan won\u2019t make a single Canadian safer. It will make the dysfunctional, obsolete registry more expensive while simultaneously making it weaker. The registry has already failed and permanently alienated large swaths of voters from the Liberal party. Why is Ignatieff the last person to realize this?<\/p>\n<p>To accomplish his \u201cgoals,\u201d Ignatieff has not only decided to write off any hopes for a Liberal expansion into rural Canada for a generation, further relegating his party to also-ran status anywhere outside of downtown Toronto and Montreal, but has also called into question his much-discussed respect for Parliament. Private member\u2019s bills have traditionally been opportunities for all MPs to vote their conscience &mdash; an important tradition Ignatieff would set aside just to prop up the long-gun registry. <\/p>\n<p>Matt Gurney, <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/fullcomment\/archive\/2010\/04\/22\/matt-gurney-michael-ignatieff-s-brand-new-mistake.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Michael Ignatieff&#8217;s brand new mistake&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2010-04-22<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignatieff feels that by tweaking the system, he can make it more palatable to rural Canadians and less objectionable to the eight Liberals who originally voted for its abolition. He thinks that by dropping the renewal fees registered gun owners pay and making failure to register a ticketing rather than criminal violation for first-time offenders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,41],"tags":[343,156,49,296],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-fail","tag-guns","tag-michaelignatieff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}