Cheliak’s report will be presented, despite his politically motivated dismissal

I have to admit that when I first heard about Marty Cheliak’s suspicious dismissal from his post as director of the Canadian Firearms Program, the main question on my mind was what, if anything, was preventing him from presenting his report about the importance of the gun registry in spite of his removal.

Well, as it turns out, the report will indeed be presented before the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police at their annual conference this week – by Superintendent Brad Doucette of the Edmonton Police Service.

Not only that, but after its private presentation, the report will be unveiled to the public.

Chief Superintendent Cheliak, who isn’t attending the conference because of his dismissal from his post, was nonetheless honoured in absentia yesterday for the work he’s done.

I’ll have much more to say on this later, and I encourage you to read the news in the meantime. There’s been an awful lot in the papers today about the police and the gun registry, and there’s only bound to be more.

In the meantime, one of the comments at the end of the Winnipeg Free Press story that I linked to above is totally hilarious. See if you can guess which one, and why.

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