RE: Firearms Laws Flushed?
So now it's 2 billion, that is about what the National Post had it at. However some of the costs are hidden at other agencies, so the real cost could be higher still.
One thing to keep in mind, when you are just thinking about the money wasting part of this: There are databases elsewhere. The gun registry is unique in being basicaly just a registry, but other programs and departments have probably hundreds of mismanaged data bases. The securities regulators have wasted an equivalent amount of money in the same way. Not the same amount, because there are only 20-30 000 employees to register, but tens if not hundreds, of millions on data bases they don't understand, and on the creation of new system, after new system. Every government agency involved in the same kind of work has probably squandered similar amounts of money. They blew a ton trying to add security features to the Ontario health card.
As time goes forward, the big risk is they will scrap the registry and give us a totaly new series of rules, that will sound rational to non-gun owners, like everyone should be happy.