News — 18 August 2010
Greg Rickford, MP for the Kenora riding, hosted a question and answer session as well as a dinner following the Gun and Collectables Show held by the Dryden Rifle & Pistol Club on Saturday, August 14.
With over 100 people in attendance, Rickford answered many questions and concerns the public had on the situation with the long-gun registry and its current status. The dinner was a cost of a minimum $20 donation per person, with half the proceeds going to the Dryden Rifle & Pistol Club and the other half to the Dryden Agricultural Fairgrounds.
Rickford reports that there were many questions posed to the MP, including the sequence of events that Bill C-391 has taken to get where it is today. Bill C-391 was introduced by Candice Hoeppner, Conservative MP, to dismantle the long-gun registry.
“Folks wanted to know the context and the technical and procedural things so we spent close to an hour going through that and answering any questions that they had,” says Rickford.
Some attendees of the question and answer session as well as the dinner expressed concerns regarding the Liberal Party and their intentions of the motion to abandon Bill C-391.
“It’s clear that the Liberal party intends to whip their vote on the motion to abandon so certainly I made it clear that that’s what they intend to do because that’s what they’ve said,” states Rickford.
Rickford has taken some flack for the dinner following the gun show as written in the Toronto Star and the Ottawa Bureau. Liberal MP, Marlene Jennings plans on submitting a letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons on the belief that Rickford has violated the rules governing use of parliamentary resources.
The motion to abandon Bill C-391 will go to a debate on September 21, 2010, followed by a vote on the motion shortly there after.
By Ally Dunham
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