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Quebec has finally moved forward to start its own a registry of long guns based on the data acquired from the federal government. The bill to create the registry was presented by Public Security Minister, Pierre Moreau, on Thursday morning amidst huge applause in the National Assembly.
The federal long gun registry was shut down in 2012 by the Harper government but Quebec forced a court order on them to deliver the existing data to Quebec in June of this year. Premier Philippe Couillard has stressed that he will be closely watching the program to make sure there are now cost overruns as Quebec creates its own registry. He mentioned that “we’ve made it so the cost of implementing the system will be very limited, we’re being very careful with that. We estimate the cost will be between $15 and $20 million, thereafter the annual cost of operating the system is going to be quite small.”
It was estimated that an approximate annual cost of operating the registry will not be much. The operation of the registry body would be to keep information of gun owners and police officers to verify the registry before investigating possible crimes and other complaints. The government is planning to have the legislation approved within eight months, followed by two years to create the database and a group to maintain the list. Couillard has alleged that “the main challenge is putting the system in place at the right price, and we’re going to be extremely tight on this.”
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