Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act
L’abolition du registre des armes d’épaule : le rôle potentiel des principes non écrits
I have a short paper on SSRN on the gun registry case that will be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Fall. Here is the abstract: Section 29 of the Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act orders federal and provincial officials to destroy gun-registration records collected collaboratively over a period of two decades. […] Read more
Gun Registry and Data Destruction
My holidays have been delayed, much to my frustration! But on the plus side, I was at my desk for the Quebec Court of Appeal’s decision in the gun registry appeal: Canada (Procureur général) c. Québec (Procureur général), 2013 QCCA 1138. I criticized the decision in an oped for the Montreal Gazette yesterday. Here is […] Read more
More on the Unconstitutionality of the Destruction of Gun Data
Next week, the Quebec Court of Appeal will hear argument in the Gun Registry Destruction case: Québec (Procureur général) c. Canada (Procureur général), 2012 QCCS 4202 (unofficial English translation of the first-instance decision). I have previously explained why the attempted destruction of the data by the federal government is unconstitutional (see my posts here, here […] Read more