Liberals target NDP in online pro-gun-registry campaign

Just like Candice Hoeppner did before them, the Liberals are taking the NDP to task over the looming fate of the long-gun registry to the web -- but obviously, not with the same goal.

The online campaign urges Canadians to take action by contacting Jack Layton directly via email or on Twitter, as well as calling six designated NDP MPs the Liberals say provide "advice and support" to the NDP leader. All six have previously voted against Hoeppner's private member's bill to scrap the registry.

Among the six are Layton's wife, Toronto MP Olivia Chow, and NDP deputy leader Thomas Mulcair, whose name is mentioned in the same breath as Layton's in every Liberal shot at the party over the gun registry vote.

Mulcair's Outremont riding is home to Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, site of the worst mass shooting in Canada's history, where 14 women were murdered by gunman Marc Lepine. The Liberals, it seems, haven't forgotten that Mulcair took Outremont from them in a 2007 byelection and see Layton's refusal to whip the gun registry vote as a chance to jam up his second-in-command and lone Quebec MP.

The online appeal also urges supporters to change their Facebook profile picture to a black "Save Lives-Save the Gun Registry" button. And just in case supporters don't know what to say to the NDP members they contact, the Liberals provide the following script: