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Originally Posted by densa44
If the cons had wanted to get rid of the gun registry they would have brought it forward as a government bill. Private member's bills are never made law, they are just to keep the yokels back home under control, and to use against other parties to scare people.
You give government way to much credit. Take a more cynical view and it will all make sense.
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The reason they didn't do it that way was due to the parlimentary tradition of allowing a free (ie. not "whipped") vote on a private member's bill.
It would have passed too, if Iggy hadn't broken that tradition. It would have been defeated at the first reading if it was a standard government bill.