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Originally Posted by MarchHare
The long gun registry was a bloated waste of money that cost far too much to get up and running, but now that it's operational, the on-going annual costs are relatively low. Law enforcement officers have repeatedly said that they find it very valuable in conducting their duties. Harper wants to scrap it on ideological grounds because he campaigned against it as an example of Liberal largesse, not because it's useless or expensive to maintain.
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Approximately $4 Million per year. Reasonable or excessive is up to interpretation I think.
I do have a problem with the second half of your statement though. Harper (and the Conservative Party as a whole) feels that the program has not and will not make Canada safer from gun crime - that is why it's being scrapped. As you suggest, the registry is also viewed as a fine example of ridiculous spending by the previous government.
So the question becomes, why the hell would the government continue to fund a program that does not actually accomplish what it was intended to?