OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will hear a Quebec government appeal to preserve data from the federal long-gun registry
Quebec asked the court to hear the case after losing at the Quebec Court of Appeal last summer.
The province wants to force Ottawa to keep data related to the federal long-gun registry and wants police forces to continue to have access to the information.
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Opponents of the registry, which was scrapped in 2012, say it is wasteful and irrelevant in stopping crime, while some police organizations call it a valuable law-enforcement tool.
Quebec wants the data to support its own registry, say it would cost too much to start a new one.
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As usual, the justices gave no reasons for deciding to hear the appeal.
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