Canada bans .22 rifle because it looks similar to an AK-47

[iverglas]

27. snork

the Governor General is ignorant and made a stupid, uninformed decision

Since the Governor General made no decision at all ... well hm, we could hazard a guess at what that makes you.



You seem to have read "His Excellency the Governor General in Council" at the top of the regulations and thought it meant the GG actually made some decision.

"The Governor General in Council" means the federal Cabinet, with the rubber stamp of the GG.

Any GG who refused to put that stamp on any legislation or regulations enacted by Parliament or made by Cabinet (or another regulation-making authority) would provoke a constitutional crisis the likes of which has not been seen since the King-Byng affair.

Now, legislation by fiat ... that IS what the minority Harper government did year after year when it made orders in council (not subject to any parliamentary oversight) exempting long gun owners from the registration requirement that is very clearly mandatory in the legislation/regulations.

That there was legislation by fiat for sure -- and all right-thinking, democratic Canadians were outraged by it. How 'bout you??