Fiasco, Eh? - This article,

Fiasco, Eh? - This article, from the Toronto Globe and Mail, is interesting on so many different levels:

1. As a critique of the lunacy of gun registration. Even in Canada, where the majority population (Ontarians and Quebequois) is docile and coalesces easily with big government initiatives, the attempt to register firearms has been a notable boondoggle.
2. It shows in Technicolor the deep, seething contempt the gun control movement, here and there, feels for its nemeses and their collective intelligence:

   Justice Minister Martin Cauchon found time to drop in on a Dec. 6 memorial service attended by grieving relatives. Former justice minister Anne McLellan accused the nasty provinces and the gun nuts of sabotage. Allan Rock, who presided over the launch of the blighted registry, blasted away at rival Paul Martin for "playing into the hands of the gun lobby" because Mr. Martin had dared to say something bad about it. Then he presciently claimed that the gun registry will save 1,240 lives by the time it's up and running. "You have to ask yourself, what are 1,240 lives worth?" he said."

3. It says much, also, about Canada's prospects as a nation. The populous eastern provinces, controlled by liberal machines and given extremely broad sway over policy at the federal level by a federal government system that rewards population, rams gigantistic statist initiatives down the rural, conservative West's throat with a healthy dose of contempt - and the West has had about enough!?

Very much worth following.

(via Instapundit)

Posted by Mitch at December 11, 2002 04:23 PM