mariomike said:
The Boards, Associations, and Chiefs are the police forces ( services ).
"Joint Statement on Firearms from the Canadian Association of Police Boards (CAPB), the Canadian Police Association (CPA), and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP): Representing the police boards, police officers and police leaders from across Canada":
http://www.cacp.ca/media/library/download/883/CAPB_CPA_CACP__joint_statement_on_firearms_final.pdf
You better look into exactly who the CACP really is before you start using their propoganda as backup for your arguements. They are a lobby group of Chiefs that don't represent the rank and file. They are led by the biggest anti of all, your own Bill Blair, that uses the organization as a personal pulpit.
From an article in McLeans: '“led by organizations of police chiefs”—i.e., political advocacy groups that claim to represent police chiefs, and that have a strong interest in the naïve citizen (or the naïve reporter) confusing them with the police qua police.'
Also: John Jones, an ethics advisor to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, quit because of the association’s incorrigible addiction to questionable corporate donations.
As Christie Blatchford wrote in the Globe at the time:
"Dr. Jones and the members of the ethics committee were in Montreal in August for two days of meetings around the CACP’s annual conference when they learned about Taser’s sponsorship and that of others, including a joint Bell Mobility-CGI Group-Techna donation of $115,000, which went toward the purchase of 1,000 tickets at $215 each to a Celine Dion concert on Aug. 25."
They also receive donations from CGI Group Inc, a major, long-term firearms-registry contractor. Wonder what happens to those?
If you're going to bring your horse to the race, make sure it's not a gluebag.