Who owns the Gun Registry Data?

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Who owns the Gun Registry Data?

Tracey P. Lauriault
I thought that data were a government record, and as government records they cannot be destroyed and must be archived.  They can be archived with restrictions but destroyed, really?

Also, who owns those data? 
  • I though we -citizens/public did, since we paid for it, 
  • and then an argument can be made that those who registered their firearms do, at least their entries, 
  • then there are the provinces who were mandated to submit data and conform to it
  • what about all the agencies that had to comply - police forces, border patrol, rcmp, etc.
Questions:
  • Can a government really destroy a database? 
  • And is a database a government record that must be archived?
Is this how it legally really works:
  • the feds create a registry and a dbase
  • citizens comply as do police forces and both like it
  • the Conservative gov. scraps the registry which means destroying the data
  • but I though gov records could not be destroyed
  • Quebec wants its data to continue the registry in that province - data they submitted and paid for
  • the feds won't budge
So who owns the data?

History of tragic shootings drives Quebec’s gun-registry battle

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/history-of-tragic-shootings-driving-force-behind-quebecs-gun-registry-battle/article2239063/?cmpid=nl-news1

If anyone knows let me know, as I really thought the Government could not legally destroy records.  If they can, then well, we are in big trouble, as that means the Census and any other dbase.

Cheers
t