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Short Hand · 04-03-2005, 08:57 AM

[quote:36c6d]# 1995 estimates on the cost of the Canadian Firearms Program were that it would cost $119 million, but that registration fees would bring in $117 million, leaving the total cost to the taxpayers of $2 million.
# In December 2002, a preliminary audit by the Auditor General of Canada revealed that the Department of Justice was estimating the gun registry program would cost more than $1 billion by 2004-05, and collect about $140 million in fees. The Auditor General noted that this estimate did not include all financial impacts on the government[/quote:36c6d]

not quite a billion, but close... a pretty big "mistake by the government" yes.

..compared to a MULTi billion doller war...... http://costofwar.com/

75 billion was the orginal estimate.. now look.

Operation fucking Disaster more like it.

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Short Hand is Offline Brigadier General Posts: 10,721 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: C-eH-N-eH-D-eH eH?	04-03-2005, 08:57 AM [quote:36c6d]# 1995 estimates on the cost of the Canadian Firearms Program were that it would cost $119 million, but that registration fees would bring in $117 million, leaving the total cost to the taxpayers of $2 million. # In December 2002, a preliminary audit by the Auditor General of Canada revealed that the Department of Justice was estimating the gun registry program would cost more than $1 billion by 2004-05, and collect about $140 million in fees. The Auditor General noted that this estimate did not include all financial impacts on the government[/quote:36c6d] not quite a billion, but close... a pretty big "mistake by the government" yes. ..compared to a MULTi billion doller war...... http://costofwar.com/ 75 billion was the orginal estimate.. now look. Operation fucking Disaster more like it.