Kristyn Wong-Tam brings the battle over the long-gun registry to Toronto

The recently cancelled long-gun registry has been a contentious issue in federal politics for years, but the next part of the battle could be fought in Toronto’s city hall. Following in the footsteps of David Miller, who was pro-registry, Kristyn Wong-Tam will introduce a motion at the next city council meeting asking Ontario to fight to maintain the data and allow it to be used by police, and the city’s lawyers to research how they could intervene. The Conservatives—who celebrated the registry’s defeat in February with a classy cocktail party—want to delete all the information collected by the registry since 1995. The Quebec government’s against the purge and Mississauga council already voted unanimously in favour of maintaining the records back in December (for which Hazel McCallion trotted out her fierce “tough on crime” face). It’s yet another example of Mississauga beating Toronto to the punch. [Globe and Mail]

(Images: Guns, simonov; Kristyn Wong-Tam, Christopher Drost)