Tories at it again - Lied about Long Gun Registry costs

[JBoy]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cost-of-long-gun-registry-a-fraction-of-what-tories-claim-report-shows/article1807833/

An independent cost-benefit analysis of Conservative legislation to kill the federal long-gun registry has found the public savings could amount to just over $1.5-million annually"

But in contrast to the tens of millions of dollars in savings estimated by the Conservative government, the 2009 analysis for the RCMP by Peter Hall of the management consulting firm Pleiad Canada Inc., found that scrapping the long-gun registry would save between $1,570,000 and $4,025,000 a year.

“The government held out a variety of figures in the $70-million, $80-million, I heard $100-million range when, clearly, they had a report that said it was nothing like that,” said Mark Holland, the Liberal public safety critic.

“They buried this so we didn’t have it for the debate,” he said. “They were trying to get the House to vote with blindfolds on.”

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Standard procedure from Harper's government when it comes to "facts":

- they are to be cherry-picked in order to support the narrative; or
- they are to be suppressed and replaced with made-up "facts".