EKOS POLL ALERT!

2009/09/18

RCMP violates firearms owners' confidentiality by disclosing gunowners' contact information from the Firearms Registry to a public polling company.

Ekos Research is currently conducting a poll of firearms owners using contact information obtained from the Canadian Firearms Centre (CFC). When the CSSA/CILA alerted the federal government about this poll (which they knew nothing about), they immediately began an investigation. We are currently exploring the possibility of criminal charges relating to the release of confidential information by the CFC.

We are advising all firearms owners that if contacted by Ekos, that they decline participation in this poll. It is obviously an attempt by the bureaucrats to justify continuation of the wasteful and useless long-gun registry, particularly with the second reading of Bill C-391 due at the end of September. Much of the information requested in the poll is already on their databases.

It appears that the CFC has violated your privacy by releasing this information, despite the assurances from the Liberal Government of the day that this would never happen. Another nail in the coffin of the Firearms Registry.

We ask that you contact your MP to protest this incident and to support the passage of C-391.