{"id":1949,"date":"2008-10-23T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:07:36","slug":"firearms-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Firearms Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Canadian Federal\u00a0Government<\/strong> &#8211; Canada<br \/>\n<strong>Project name :<\/strong> Canadian Firearms program<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> Jun 2006<strong>\u00a0 Project Cost :<\/strong>$1,000M\u00a0CAD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nIn what may be the worst budget overrun in history, the costs to implement a registry of firearms balloons from $2M to $860M.\u00a0 Original plan called for the program to cost $119M of which all but $2M would be covered by license application fees.\u00a0 The program is eventually cut back, but not before cost had risen to $1B of which $140M would be covered by license fees.<\/p>\n<p>Some reports indicate development costs for the database components of the registry rose from the original estimate of $1M to $60M.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong><br \/>\nRadical underestimation of complexity and scope of project.\u00a0 Justice Department failed to communicate cost overruns to parliament.\u00a0 Lack of oversight.\u00a0 Failure to keep records of critical decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/timeline-the-gun-registry-debate-1.786548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TIMELINE | The gun registry debate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Canadian Federal\u00a0Government &#8211; Canada Project name : Canadian Firearms program Date : Jun 2006\u00a0 Project Cost :$1,000M\u00a0CAD Synopsis : In what may be the worst budget overrun in history, the costs to implement a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[130,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","tag-government","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}