Claude Gravelle becomes the third NDP MP to change his vote for the better

Following in the footsteps of fellow NDP MPs Charlie Angus and Glenn Thibeault, MP Claude Gravelle has announced that he has changed his mind and will also vote against killing the gun registry later this month.

Gravelle’s statement on the issue is particularly worth noting. “The mounting rhetoric and divisive debate egged on by Conservative MPs,” he said, “has convinced me that I needed to make a decision sooner, rather than later… Conservatives had no interest in working collaboratively with other parliamentarians because they had intended all along to use this bill as a fundraising tool, and as a cynical way of dividing rural and urban Canadians.”

The jury’s still out on nine of the twelve NDP MPs who voted to scrap the registry during the bill’s second reading – and Jack Layton has still shown no intention to whip his party on the final vote.

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