Canada.com
Canada's two largest provinces appear headed for a major showdown with Stephen Harper's Conservatives over the cost and content of new federal crime legislation. If the federal Conservatives want to pass legislation they will have to pay for it,...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The government fended off accusations from the opposition Tuesday that it is making it easier for criminals to access dangerous guns by abolishing the long-gun registry...The requirement to register prohibited and restricted firearms would remain...
The Globe and Mail
Both Ontario and Quebec are balking at paying the costs associated with the federal government's new crime bill, joining other provincial and opposition politicians worried about the tab for expanding the prison system. Ontario Premier Dalton...
Delhi News-Record
Quebec won't spend a penny on the federal government's tough-on-crime omnibus bill, provincial Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fournier told MPs on Tuesday. In combative testimony before the Commons justice committee, Fournier warned the province would...
Macleans
Quebec's justice minister says his province simply won't pay the costs associated with the federal government's new crime bill. Jean-Marc Fournier told a Commons committee that Quebec's criminal justice system is the envy of the world, and his...