Public Safety Canada is at a loss to account for its contradictory cost claims on a gun control measure.
The department yesterday had no reply to charges it misrepresented a proposal to indelibly stamp all firearms under a United Nations protocol.
Public Safety said compliance was virtually free for industry, “from zero to $25”.
However one MP and a manufacturers’ association said actual costs were so prohibitive it’s the reason regulations have been under review for a decade: “These people do not know what they are talking about.”