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Great news for Canada. In a battle that lasted nearly 1/2 a decade the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the federal government can destroy the gun registry data rather than hand it over to Quebec. It was a 5-4 split and all of the Quebec justices voted to retain the registry which is not good.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/divided-scc-rules-gun-data-can-be-destroyed-1.2299997
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/divided-scc-rules-gun-data-can-be-destroyed-1.2299997
Divided SCC rules gun data can be destroyed
Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
Published Friday, March 27, 2015 4:27AM EDT OTTAWA -- A divided Supreme Court of Canada says the federal government has the right to order the destruction of Quebec's federal gun registry data -- but all three Quebec judges on the court disagreed.
By a 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court upheld an earlier Quebec Court of Appeal ruling that sided with the government on its controversial decision to abolish the federal registry for long guns in 2011.
The ruling is a win for the Conservative government, and it also exposes a legal divide over the powers of the provinces versus those of the federal government on the country's highest court.