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OTTAWA - The RCMP repeatedly stonewalled media inquiries for months about the price tag for destroying the federal long gun registry data, even though the federal police force had a full cost estimate in hand.
The Mounties had a detailed breakdown more than a year ago that showed fulfilling the long-time Conservative promise to kill the registry would cost about $1 million.
A PowerPoint presentation laying out the plan and its costs was provided to The Canadian Press under an Access to Information request following an 11-month delay.
In the meantime, RCMP officials refused to answer direct questions about whether any such costing had been done, saying only that any spending related to the registry's destruction would come out of the force's own budget.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/16/gun-registry-cost-canada-rcmp_n_3936757.html
Government ministers and Conservative MPs repeatedly cited the long-gun registry's lifetime cost as $2 billion, a total favoured by sport shooting lobbyists but refuted by auditor general reports and the Canadian Firearms Centre's own annual accounting.
Internal government figures, released to the Toronto Star through an access request only after the registry was finally voted out of existence in February 2012, showed the actual savings of killing the registry totalled about $2 million annually.
The Mounties had a detailed breakdown more than a year ago that showed fulfilling the long-time Conservative promise to kill the registry would cost about $1 million.
A PowerPoint presentation laying out the plan and its costs was provided to The Canadian Press under an Access to Information request following an 11-month delay.
In the meantime, RCMP officials refused to answer direct questions about whether any such costing had been done, saying only that any spending related to the registry's destruction would come out of the force's own budget.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/16/gun-registry-cost-canada-rcmp_n_3936757.html
Government ministers and Conservative MPs repeatedly cited the long-gun registry's lifetime cost as $2 billion, a total favoured by sport shooting lobbyists but refuted by auditor general reports and the Canadian Firearms Centre's own annual accounting.
Internal government figures, released to the Toronto Star through an access request only after the registry was finally voted out of existence in February 2012, showed the actual savings of killing the registry totalled about $2 million annually.
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