Supreme Court rules Quebec's long gun registry data can be destroyed

[welsh]

Please explain.

I'm going to type this as slowly as I can, in hopes that you will finally get it:

THE CONSTITUTION SAYS THE PROVINCES CAN'T PASS LAWS RESTRICTING INTERPROVINCIAL TRADE.

Quebec can't ban sales of guns to Quebec residents by any person outside the province, or vice versa. All they can do is require that guns inside the province be registered.

[Snowwalker]

You're just making stuff up.

Of course it's made up....But you can bet the Quebec Government is playing "WHAT IF" a lot more then the two of us are.

I'm going to type this as slowly as I can, in hopes that you will finally get it:

THE CONSTITUTION SAYS THE PROVINCES CAN'T PASS LAWS RESTRICTING INTERPROVINCIAL TRADE.

Quebec can't ban sales of guns to Quebec residents by any person outside the province, or vice versa. All they can do is require that guns inside the province be registered.

It is Provincial powers to control Personal property OUTSIDE of the criminal code. Just as Ontario can control if a Side by Side can be driven on a highway, Quebec can control what type of personal property to can register for legal use.

If a gun shop can not sell a Semi, pump, or an RPAL firearm because no one can register it, then they have banned them from the province through the backdoor.

Also how many times of we seen Quebec do things things that they where not allowed to do but it takes years to sort out. I have a legal right to use one of the TWO official languages of Canada to conduct my day to day affairs, but any legal document and court in Quebec is in French.

[welsh]

If a gun shop can not sell a Semi, pump, or an RPAL firearm because no one can register it, then they have banned them from the province through the backdoor.

Refer to my post #30, second paragraph.

[Snowwalker]

Refer to my post #30, second paragraph.

The one containing the idea of "a constitutional challenge "?

That is business as usually for Quebec.

[welsh]

Be serious.

If Quebec thought they could ban the private ownership of any particular type of firearm under their private-property powers, they could already have done so. There is no reason they'd have to wait to create their own registry. And they've got no reason to want to do that: they never talked about it before, so why would they now decide that they simply must waste a pile of money passing a law that will be overturned?

You're simply determined to believe that the sky is falling.

It isn't. If Quebec goes through with its stated plan to create a registry -- and there is a good chance they won't -- then all that happens is that Quebec gets an ineffective and expensive registry.

[Snowwalker]

You're simply determined to believe that the sky is falling.

No just to stringing you along.

[MikePal]

First of all, they can't prevent any firearm from passing through the province. Interprovincial trade is the exclusive territory of the federal government, and no province can impede the flow of any goods across its borders.

I think you may want to look at the Inter provincial trade barriers for things like wine, poultry, dairy products and eggs.

Liquor monopolies

Provincial liquor boards restrict the listings from out-of-province products. And federal legislation to allow cross-border wine transport has not yet been fully implemented.
Food restrictions
Supply management rules and marketing boards limit interprovincial movement of poultry, dairy products and eggs. And many provinces have different rules for packaging and labelling of food products.

good article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...1453/?page=all

[welsh]

Food and agriculture are a special case. Do guns grow on farms?

[MikePal]

Interprovincial trade is the exclusive territory of the federal government, and no province can impede the flow of any goods across its borders.

Food and agriculture are a special case.

You made a general statement..(any goods) and in fact that is not true. There still exists trade barriers between provinces.

Anyway...it's a moot point unless Quebec starts to manufacture their own guns and registers them only in Quebec and restricts their exportation....Hey wait a minute...that's a brilliant idea, create an industry, new jobs.etc etc..!!! ...LOL...

ohh and those would be called factories not farms

[welsh]

Congratulations on scoring a point, but what I'm saying is still correct.

Provinces control food and agriculture and this allows them to erect limited barriers to trade. That does not extend to guns or other manufactured goods, including any firearms made in Quebec.