[Newsbot]

Title: Gun registry access law change could set precedent, watchdog warns MPs
Category: Political
Posted By: andyt
Date: 2015-05-14 17:15:20
Canadian

[andyt]

All you tightie righties, think about when the NDP gets in power and acts like this:

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Legault said MPs should consider what kind of precedent this sets for Canada's democracy.

"Because this could have been done, you know, to erase the authority of the auditor general in 2005 when she was investigating the [former Liberal government's] sponsorship scandal," she said.

In an interview airing later Thursday on CBC News Network's Power & Politics, Legault expanded on the ramifications of passing these amendments.

[DrCaleb]

Well, what's wrong with that? If a law you make violates the law and doesn't get struck down by the Supreme Court, just write another law to make it legal!

That's Harper standing up for Law and Order, by closing loopholes!

[OnTheIce]

Such a fantastic use of tax dollars.

Just let the registry die the death it deserved.

[andyt]

But that is what they were trying to do - kill it real dead. Unfortunately they broke the law doing it, so we need a new law that says breaking the law wasn't.

[OnTheIce]

andyt andyt:

But that is what they were trying to do - kill it real dead. Unfortunately they broke the law doing it, so we need a new law that says breaking the law wasn't.

The law has no consequences anyway.