This posting will be of particular interest to the many FoF supporters/contributors trappers, hunters, sport shooters and firearm collectors … traditional Canadian outdoor enthusiast activities. Too trappers’ firearms are very important necessary personal property (tools); modern day professional trappers depend on their firearms for their harvesting and survival purposes.
Therefore the following link will keep you up-to-date on the upcoming election. We invite you to checkout the rest of our unique website ‘your source for awareness’ while you are here.
NOTE: This Simon Fraser University website tracks **all** polling data and charts the averages as well as providing individual polling data as it is released. The averaging helps make sense of some of the wild swings.
Apart from general information on opinion polls, this page provides tables of polling results for you to keep track of changes in voters' preferences as the next campaign unfolds. While the focus of most media attention is often on the national levels of support for the various parties, in the end the regional and local levels of support are much more indicative of how parties may fare on election day.
Election Opinion Polls http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/polls.html
Some additional commentary relative to the off target, ineffective & wasteful long-gun-registry, geared to target law-abiding citizens rather than criminals …
N.S. group: Vote to end gun registry THE CHRONICLE HERALD April 13 2011: Nova Scotia Federation of Anglers and Hunters executive director Tony Rodgers said: "I guess if you put it up against health care or national defence and all these other things people are debating during the campaign, it may seem trivial to some that we’re still bringing this issue out." "But it goes deeper than that. It goes to the whole core that we expect our government to trust us as responsible citizens, and part of that trust would be to get rid of this long-gun registry."
FoF president Eldon Hawton agrees with Mr Rogers; “in my view voter-government trust is a two way street ... As a duly licensed law-abiding, tax-paying, Canadian senior citizen (born & raised on a farm, my record checked by the RCMP) ... Given Ignatieff and his Liberals, Layton and his NDP won't trust me with my long-guns unless I register them, in turn why then should they expect me to trust them with my vote to govern Canada? ... My country!”
CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVEACTIONTEAM CSSA E-NEWS - 29 April 2011 ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT NOT VOTING?
If you want to keep your guns and use them for hunting, sport shooting, trapping, prospecting and farming, please take the time to vote. It's a matter of self-interest. Every political party - except the Conservatives - is poised to take your guns away. If you are a hunter and don't care that restricted firearms face confiscation, it can still affect you - your hunting rifle could be next.
The Liberals and NDP have admitted they want strict and relentless gun control - they simply don't know the difference between sport shooters and criminals. They say all guns are bad. You need to vote for your firearms freedoms by supporting the only party that has pledged to protect our freedoms. The Conservatives aren't perfect, but they have pledged to work with us and no other party will. The polls are are very hard to read going into the May 2 election, so every vote counts. Don't sit on your hands and become a former firearms owner! Do it for you.--
-----EDITORIAL SAYS FIRE THESE REGISTRY TURNCOATS:
Back when the national gun registry was saved from demise, a turncoat's dozen of 14 MPs -- eight Liberals and six NDPers -- turned their back on their constituencies by flip-flopping on their original vote to see the registry scrapped. We promised, back then, to remind you of who they are. And today we're doing just that.
The turncoats in the Liberal camp, all who tossed principle into the dumpster over a self-serving fear of being kicked out of their precious seat in caucus, include Anthony Rota (Northern Ontario), Jean-Claude D'Amours (New Brunswick), Larry Bagnell (Yukon), Scott Andrews(Newfoundland), Scott Simms (Newfoundland), Todd Russell (Labrador), Wayne Easter (P.E.I.)...
The majority of the six NDP turncoats, it should be noted, all come from the hunting mecca of Northern Ontario and, if they escape this election unscathed, they must have been campaigning wearing camouflage.
So let's remind the good folks of the Nickel Belt region that Carol Hughes, Charlie Angus, Claude Gravelle and Glenn Thibeault can no longer be taken at their word after siding with the fiction that law-abiding ranchers, farmers, hunters and long gun owners across this country are a dangerous faction who must be tracked and treated like criminals.
And neither can Malcolm Allen be taken at his word in the southern Ontario town of Welland. Or Peter Stoffer of Nova Scotia, a perennial press gallery darling and therefore even more suspect... In truth, he turned tail on his people, and therefore doesn't deserve re-election... What these 13 MPs still standing for re-election want their electorate to do is cast a sympathetic vote for an MP who believes in putting paycheque before principle. It's not a winning motto. (Editorial -- Edmonton Sun - April 28, 2011)-------
