[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.
04-03-2005, 08:57 AM
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