Tuesday Nov. 25, 2003 3:45 p.m. EST
Confirmed: Canada's Gun Registry Costing $1 Billion

The head of the Canadian firearms centre admitted that, indeed, as
reported in Newsmax magazine months ago, the cost of Canada's
problem-infested gun registry will run taxpayers north of the border
over a billion dollars by next year.

This is the first time that the Canadian government has admitted that
this boondoggle will carry such a price tag.

Auditor General Sheila Fraser predicted that costs would be this high
in her caustic report of last year, and officials have now admitted
almost $50 million in "indirect" costs of the program that they have
now been forced to add to the total of $766 million through the
beginning of this year alone.

The government has had to add another $128 million for the program
this year, bringing the total to $941 million.

And Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz, an outspoken opponent of the
troubled program, says there are future costs, that have not yet been
taken into account, which will bring the total well over a billion
dollars.

"This is going to go over the $1-billion mark a full year ahead of
schedule, and most of it is due to the astonishingly poor management
of the program," he said.

"This tells us the thing is out of control beyond what the government
even led us to believe originally. The spending on this thing is
considerably worse than the auditor general found," Breitkreuz added.

hmmm.....is that canadian dollars or american???? maybe we should
learn some things from our socialist brethern north of the border.....