The NPD jumped the squished raccoon:

OTTAWA – The NDP ratcheted up its overkill on government cuts Tuesday, suggesting changes to meat inspection mean Canadians can expect splattered squirrel, groundhogs and other crunched critters for dinner.

“First the Conservatives will let private inspectors monitor meat, and now they’re essentially allowing roadkill ready meat into the food supply,” said Malcolm Allen, the party’s meat and vegetable critic.

The NDP is concerned about what happens to animals on farms before the carcass is shipped to a federally inspected slaughter house.

“Even scarier is the fact that we won’t know how long animals have been dead before processing — or even that the meat will be inspected at all.”

Quebec says the federal anti-crime bill will result in 1,000 additional inmates in provincial jails every day.

Whoa. Are there really that many offenders and other would-be criminals walking the province’s streets now?

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty explains his position:

OTTAWA – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is upping the ante in the debate over so-called backdoor long-gun registries.

On CTV Question Period Sunday, the premier said it is up to the federal government to change legislation to make it clear chief firearms officers (CFOs) can’t tell gun shops to keep point-of-sale ledgers.

Ontario’s CFO “is basically saying to this point in time that he doesn’t recognize the authority of the federal government or any of their officers to dismantle a system that he believes he has the discretion to put in place and keep in place,” McGuinty told host Kevin Newman.

His comments come after a week of back-and-forth between the Ontario government, the federal government and the RCMP over the ledgers.

Last week, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson called on the CFOs to cease imposing any licensing conditions on gun shops that would allow for the creation of provincial gun registries.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has called the ledgers “unauthorized data collection.”

Firearms specialist and criminal lawyer Solomon Friedman said Sunday the Conservative government should take McGuinty up on his offer.

“This is a chance for Parliament to reign in once and for all the chief firearms officer and to limit his discretion by clear legislation,” he said.

The chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation is threatening to call a state of emergency again at her reserve unless the federal government coughs up $50,000 a month with no strings attached for the band to use for housing.