Not an entirely accurate article.... for the first 11 years of it's existence the registry was part of the Ministry of Public Safety and wasn't part of any police force's budget. In 2006 it was transfered to the RCMP to try and get the bureaucracy running more smoothly (successfully, in my opinion). The Association of Canadian Police Chiefs actually supported the registry, though most rank and file officers didn't.
The bit about the political parties is wrong, though. The Reform and Progressive Conservative parties were both right-wing parties, who merged in 2003 to become the Conservative Party. The New Democrats are our most left-wing mainstream party, and they actually supported the registry. They still maintain a little of their traditional rural roots (going back to the days when they were a Socialist party for small farmers), and rural Canadians were almost universally against the registry, but their current urban liberal base makes the party very much in favor of gun control. The point being there was never broad cross-political support for abolishing the registry, it was always a conservative issue.
They are right about one thing: the registry, espescially in the early days, was badly mismanaged and cost MUCH more than was originally foreseen, to the point where the initial claims of cost were probably fraudulent.
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