The Ontario Landowners’ Association (OLA) will track and target the voting records of opposition MPs from rural ridings who vote against Candice Hoeppner’s private member’s bill to abolish the federal long-gun registry system.
In a plain-language letter to Liberal and NDP members representing rural ridings, OLA president Jack MacLaren – writing on behalf of the 17,000 members of the OLA – spelled out the position of his property rights advocacy organization.
“It is the intent of our organization to closely monitor the voting records of all MPs on this issue, and, should the bill be defeated by the opposition parties, to hold the respective parties and their members to account during the next election campaign.
On the other hand, we will give full public credit to those opposition MPs who display the courage of their convictions and vote to abolish this hated long-gun registry.
“Rural Canada will keep the actions of the Liberal and NDP parties under the microscope” said MacLaren, who added that “I know the public mood on this issue.
“Farmers, hunters, loggers, and gun-owners across the country will get their retribution if the Liberals and the NDP sell them out on this.”
