Postmedia: Harper initially supported long-gun registry

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a vocal opponent of the long-gun registry who came to power on a promise to scrap it, originally voted in favour of the database as a member of the Reform Party, but switched sides in a final vote.

Sitting on the opposition benches as a Calgary MP, Harper twice voted for Bill C-68 — an expansive package on gun control.

But in a third and final vote in June 1995, he voted with his party by opposing the bill, attributing his change of heart to the will of his constituents.

He said at the time that he had made his initial decision after a poll showed his constituents supported the registry, but then a second poll showed that 60 per cent were against it after learning more about it.

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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Harper+initially+supported+long+registry/3519676/story.html

does his socks, methinks. How do you trust or even respect someone who can't take a stand and stick to it? Loser.