Stockwell Said It, So It Must Be True
Toronto Sun commenter Kerry Thompson, the usual suspects, as well as other assorted and sundry, are muttering about a knife registry supposedly being discussed by some Opposition MPs… the thing is that the only reference to any named MP actually mentioning this that I can find appears to be Stockwell Day.
Me thinks what we’re seeing here is some well placed party propaganda that has had the intended effect…. unthinking partisans grabbed it and ran with it like it was the lost arc of the covenant.
– silly partisans.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day is right to point out there’s nothing wrong with looking at new safety measures. There has been talk of putting surveillance cameras on Greyhound buses (there’s already plenty on municipal transit services across the country), and this sounds like a feasible idea.
Did Stock say anything about a possible knife registry or that other MP’s are pushing for one? People are asking him questions and he’s answering them. In one of them he says it’s “unlikely”.
Actually, wasn’t there a CPC MP from Brockville pushing this a year or so ago?
Nasty, I think SL point is that Stock is saying that some Opposition MPs are calling for this, when none are. In fact only Stock himself ever mentions it.
That means the whole “knife registry” is nonsense and a lie, cooked up for partisan political gain by a Government Minister trying to use a tragedy to smear his political opponents.
Stock is lying. If not he should name the MP who suggest this and they should be riduculed. But he won’t because the only one I have heard of is a Conservative, and it is unconnected to the Bus tragedy.
I guess you didn’t follow the link ‘eh nastyboy
Who is doing this talking?
This thing is of Days making and as I said, there are more than enough blind partisans willing to grab the smoke and run with it.
BTW is was Conservative MP Gord Brown who first mentioned this back in 2005.
Only one other MP - also a Conservative - mentions this in Hansard and that was in an ironic question.
So what we have is two Conservative MPs mentioning a knife registry and even then only in irony (I accept that they probably weren’t serious) and no opposition MPs.
So Stock is making this up, taking the opportunity when answering serious questions in the wake of a terrible tragedy, to make things up and lie, to attribute to his political opponents positions they do not hold, in order to knock down those positions and look good.
That would be bearing false witness, no? Not a very ‘Christian’ thing to do…
Stock is a liar and he should be ashamed.
McLeans blog has more details.
SL,
I guess you didn’t follow the link ‘eh nastyboy
My bad. I read the other links but didn’t click the last one.