Gun-control advocates urge Canadians to vote for Liberals or Bloc

<p>MONTREAL – A man who was wounded in the 2006 shooting at Montreal’s Dawson College doesn’t want Canadians to vote for the NDP.</p> <p>Hayder Kadhim and several people who were affected by the Dawson shooting and the 1989 Montreal Massacre held a news conference in Montreal on Thursday.</p> <p>The gun-control advocates are urging voters to cast their ballots for the Liberals or the Bloc Quebecois because they helped defeat a Conservative bill last September that would have abolished the long-gun registry.</p> <p>NDP members were free to vote as they saw fit.</p> <p>”What’s unfortunate from the NDP is that Jack Layton came to Dawson once and promised us to have a strong position about gun control in his party,” Kadhim said.</p> <p>”But unfortunately in September I witnessed with my own eyes, that he didn’t hold his promise.”</p> <p>On Sept. 13, 2006, Kimveer Gill stormed Dawson and opened fire.</p> <p>One student, 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa, was killed, and many others were injured before Gill turned the gun on himself.</p> <p>The news conference was held at the home of the parents of Anne-Marie Edward, one of 14 women who were killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989.</p> <p>Jim Edward, Anne-Marie’s father, says he simply doesn’t feel comfortable with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.</p> <p>”I find the man scary and I just think that Canadians, Quebecers should vote other. .don’t vote Conservative,” he said.</p> <p>The Conservatives say the money spent to keep the registry running is unjustified and that the database carries incomplete and unreliable information.</p>