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Old 05-12-2006, 12:52 PM
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Default $273-million contract registry's 'smoking gun'

$273-million contract registry's 'smoking gun'

Allan Woods
CanWest News Service

Friday, May 12, 2006

The former Liberal government "broke every rule in the book" when it signed a $273-million computer contract for the federal gun registry -- now the subject of a "stop-work" order -- and never reported the costs or terms of the deal to Parliament, a longtime Conservative gun-registry critic alleges.

Saskatchewan Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, who discovered the existence of the 15-year contract last fall, said that it was never reported to Parliament in government estimates on spending, or disclosed by the Treasury Board, which controls the government purse.

A Tory source referred to the 383-page contract, which was obtained by Breitkreuz under the Access to Information Act and provided Friday to CanWest News Service, as the "smoking gun" in the troubled saga of the Canadian Firearms Centre.

The revelations come after CanWest revealed that Auditor General Sheila Fraser will report Tuesday that the former Liberal government kept the true costs of the gun registry from Parliament and that the problems identified in her initial 2002 audit of the controversial program continued for at least three years despite fierce criticism and the scrutiny of opposition parties.

The CanWest report on the contents of next Tuesday's auditor general's report sparked a sharp rebuke Thursday from Fraser.

Fraser called the report "an affront to Parliament" and added that her office has launched an investigation to find out the source of the information.
© The Calgary Herald 2006
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Old 05-14-2006, 10:49 PM
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Default Liberal friends got contracts.

I never heard anything about the computer contract for gun registry up for bid in the past. All the tendering for the bids along with details should have been available to the public.
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