The issue isn't his position, it's his endorsement of the CCFR which was recently mocking the École Polytechnique shooting by using POLY as a promo code for their website. Also, him claiming to have never heard of the shooting doesn't pass the smell test since he literally lived in Montreal for 15 years.
Price himself corrected the team's PR flak and said that yes, he did know about the Ecole Polytechnique massacre. Price also pointed out that he isn't the one who scheduled the hearings on the Bill C-21 amendments. If speaking out against C-21 at this time is triggering for Polytechnique survivors, maybe the government should have scheduled these hearings sooner. I have little doubt that the Liberals planned it this way, so that they could use the Dec 6 anniversary as a stick with which to attack critics of the bill (as Marco Moronico did earlier this week.)
In regard to the CCFR promo code, it needs to be pointed out that "POLY" isn't a reference to the Polytechnique massacre, it's a reference to the PolySeSouvient anti-gun activist group led by Nathalie Provost, a survivor of the massacre. PolySeSouvient have been dedicated antagonists of gun-owners in general and CCFR in particular for many years. (PolySeSouvient also seem to be the only "experts" the Liberals actually consulted in drafting C-21.)
What happened to Provost and her peers was horrific beyond imagination, but that doesn't make PolySeSouvient exempt from criticism or disagreement. If they didn't want the memory of the victims of Dec 6. 1989 to be drawn into politics and controversy, maybe they should have named their political activist group something else.
-k
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