A close vote is expected today on the long gun registry which, by all accounts, will likely be retained because several N-D-P members have changed their minds about abolishing it.
Mayor Ivan Court is also President of the Canadian Association of Police Boards and says politics has gotten in the way of good judgement and this is a public safety issue.
Court says the annual cost of 4.1 million dollars doesn’t seem as much when you consider each request from police works out to a dollar or so a piece.
