Justifying scrapping the long gun registry brings out the non sequitors

Can we offer a prize to anyone who can say what Small Business and Tourism Minister Maxime Bernier meant when he told a Radio Canada interviewer that despite its abolition and destruction the long-gun registry would still be available for police to consult?

He said that on Radio-Canada's all-news television network Réseau de l'Information (RDI) and it seemed to confuse a lot of folks.