Trudeau promises more gun control and goes on the attack against Scheer
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APPEAL DENIED
Court Challenge, Property Justice
Federal Court of Appeal Decision
Today we received the decision out of the Federal Court of Appeal on our long fight against the gun ban.
It’s bad news for Canadians for multiple reasons. It is the opinion of the judges that the “protections” in the Criminal Code to prevent the Governor in Counsel (GIC) from banning guns that are legitimate for hunting and sporting use, are irrelevant. Section 56 of the decision illustrates that the protection provision is subject to the whim of the GIC, who can change their mind at any time.
The decision is clear, the courts will not constrain the government’s overreach on this issue. This has negative implications on many aspects of the legal and legislative system in Canada.
Our legal team will be reviewing the decision in depth over the next while and will advise on next steps.
You can read the full decision below:
Federal Court of Appeal Decision - Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
Today we received the decision out of the Federal Court of Appeal on our long fight against the gun ban. It’s bad news for Canadians for multiple reasons. It is the opinion of the judges that the “protections” in the Criminal Code to prevent the Governor in Counsel (GIC) from banning guns that...
firearmrights.ca
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Liberal Party Promises to Ban Sale of Olympic Pistols to Olympic Shooters - PolySeSouvient
The Liberal Party also promises to complete key past commitments: (1) the long-awaited buyback of prohibited weapons, (2) find a solution with respect to the classification of the SKS, ... and close any loopholes regarding the Olympic exemption from the freeze on handgun sales.
https://polysesouvient.ca/Documents...wConference_AnalysisPartyActionsPositions.pdf
The Liberal Party also promises to complete key past commitments: (1) the long-awaited buyback of prohibited weapons, (2) find a solution with respect to the classification of the SKS, ... and close any loopholes regarding the Olympic exemption from the freeze on handgun sales.
https://polysesouvient.ca/Documents...wConference_AnalysisPartyActionsPositions.pdf
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A proud Canadian, BUT
This is only one thing that voters can't change no matter the level of government, scientific studies, common sense or outright illegality.
Makes you wonder what it would be like to be able vote on a change or even to be heard eh?
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On this one issue, Mark Carney sounds a lot like Justin Trudeau
Canada doesn’t have a gun-control problem. And Mark Carney should stop pretending it does.We do have a problem with gun crime, particularly in some of our larger cities. And we also have a problem with intimate-partner violence. These problems need attention and, critically, more resources. What they don’t need is more gun-control laws: everything that should be illegal already is, often several times over.
Yet we keep getting more gun-control laws. We also keep getting longer and longer lists of banned firearms — and, in classic Liberal “deliverology” style, ever-delayed deadlines by which they’re to be confiscated. It’s been five years since then-prime minister Justin Trudeau “banned” assault-style rifles, a totally made-up category, and not a single one has been taken from its owner under the so-called ban.
To riff on the Liberal terminology, that’s “leadership-style governance.” It sounds like leadership, but it doesn’t actually do anything.
Most gun offences in Canada are linked to organized crime and gangs, and most of the guns involved come from the United States via smuggling networks or, sometimes, drones. Every cop I’ve ever spoken to who has knowledge of the subject agrees that further cracking down on legal gun owners via our gun-control laws is futile. But the Liberals keep doing it, perhaps because they like announcing it. Half of me suspects that’s why they’ve never gotten around to actually seizing any guns: if they did, they’d have to stop talking about it. (The other half suspects they just haven’t been competent enough to do it.)
The fact is, most Canadians don’t know much about guns or our gun laws. They’re easy marks for shameless politicians.
But imagine if smugglers were bringing in huge quantities of some new form of booze, booze that was banned and/or tightly regulated here, and criminal groups were selling the smuggled booze and causing havoc. And imagine if the government responded by banning B.C. wines and raising the legal drinking age to 25 and making two pieces of ID mandatory at the LCBO.
You’d know that was absurd. You’d know that was the government just doing something to be seen to be doing something, even though it wouldn’t help.
That’s our past five years of gun control.
Gun control is important. I own firearms, and I have always complied fully with our gun laws, because I support the (theoretical) goal of keeping firearms away from criminals, the mentally unwell and anyone who might threaten another person. Because I support the laws and comply with them, I actually know what they are. That’s why I know that nothing the Liberals have proposed in the past five years has made any sense.
And it’s worse than that. The changes made in recent years have taken a once generally functional system and introduced absurdities to it. Describe a gun to me, and it’s even money if I can guess whether it’s banned or not.
There’s no logic behind any of this. Just vibes. Gun control is ostensibly about regulating the sale, possession and use of firearms by authorized individuals. Canada does that really well. What our gun-control system has become, though, is a machine that generates election ads for the Liberals.
Border security to clamp down on gun smuggling would keep Canadians safer. More resources to combat intimate-partner violence would keep Canadians safer. Every party should support such measures — and every party does.
But none of that is as exciting for the campaigning politician as announcing a new ban on thousands more rifles that the government will get around to collecting at some unknown future date. So that’s what we get.
That’s what we got for the last five years of Trudeau, anyway. There might briefly have been hope that Carney would do better. He’s already disavowed a number of Trudeau-era policies because they didn’t make sense. Gun control à la Trudeau should have been one of them.
But alas, it’s not to be. Indeed, Carney never sounds more like Trudeau than when he’s talking about guns.
Matt Gurney: On this one issue, Mark Carney sounds a lot like Justin Trudeau
Canada has a problem with gun crime, not gun control — and the Liberals should stop pretending otherwise.
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