.IvisonJ: When it comes to guns, Canadian common sense and pragmatism likely will prevail via nationalpost
The past two decades have seen Canadian political parties look south for inspiration — namely, to a political strategy first propounded by campaign guru Karl Rove to get George W. Bush re-elected in 2004 — the base strategy. It preached the lesson that parties should appeal primarily to their own base, rather to moderate, “persuadable” swing voters.The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit.
It certainly appears that the decision to parachute two controversial amendments into the government’s gun bill, C-21, at the committee stage on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre was taken because it was judged to be a useful political wedge. As one minister sanitized it privately, it would offer voters “a stark choice.”
The Liberals banked that the move would be wildly popular among a progressive, downtown voting base that wouldn’t know a Remington 870 shotgun from a Remington typewriter. The base strategy requires that leaders are willing to repel opponents in order to stoke the emotions of your own adherents. Government sources say mistakes were made in the drafting of the amendment, when the “evergreen” definition was applied to thousands of models of rifles and shotguns by officials in the Department of Justice, with the unintended consequence that some weapons were added that are widely used by hunters and farmers. “It was difficult to calibrate 100 per cent,” said one senior source.Article content
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