Feds likely to fight Quebec’s appeal to courts to save long-gun registry records
'I cannot comment on any specific matter that may be before the courts, however we will not support the creation of a backdoor long-gun registry,' says Michael Patton, communications director for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.
PARLIAMENT HILL—The federal government has hinted it will fight a plan announced by the government of Quebec today to go to court in an attempt to preserve records in the federal long gun registry if a bill dismantling the system passes through Parliament.
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