Dear Member,

Liberal M.P. Mark Holland (Ajax-Pickering) has presented a motion to return Private Members' Bill C-391 to the House of Commons with a recommendation to reject the legislation that would scrap the long-gun registry.

In late May, the federal Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security heard 33 witnesses over two weeks with widely dissenting opinions on the efficacy of the registry. Police officers countered each other with opposing views on the registry's value as a public safety tool, and other witnesses provided strong opinions on both sides of the debate.

Rather than evaluate Bill C-391 clause-by-clause according to the committee's preset agenda, Holland wants the bill returned stillborn to the House.

This is a complete circumvention of the parliamentary process and you should be outraged. Please write a quick note to all M.P.s and demand that they follow proper parliamentary procedure on Bill C-391.

You can send an email free of charge to all M.P.s through:

http://www.democracy-machine.com/

Thank you for your assistance,

Tony Bernardo Executive Director

(We continue to encourage you to contact the MPs below by fax as well.)

Troops:

Here are the MPs who voted for C-391, and their fax info.

Please contact them and strongly request (politely) that they support bill C-391, and let them know how wrong it is to whip a Private Member's Bill. (Whipping a PMB is in direct violation of long-standing parliamentary tradition, and is a slap-in-the-face to our democratic process -- it requires MPs wilfully to ignore the wishes of their constituents.)

Please note there are only eight Liberal MPs -- we can still pass this bill.