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Quebec First: Carney’s Gun Compensation Scheme Is Designed to Run Out of Money​

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is crystal clear.

If you do not declare your guns by March 31, 2026, you won’t get a dime. No declaration = no compensation.

Your declaration is not automatically approved. It is an application for compensation, not a guarantee you’ll get any money.

Approval is no guarantee of compensation. The compensation scheme is capped at $260 million.

Compensation is handled on Ottawa’s terms, not yours. Amounts paid are based on make and model, and their assessment of your firearm’s value. Their decision is final.

Compliance is mandatory, compensation is conditional. The amnesty ends whether you were paid or not. If you don’t turn in your banned firearms by October 30, 2026, you could face criminal charges for illegal possession of a prohibited firearm, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.[ii]

That’s not a compensation program, it’s a confiscation scheme with a harsh criminal compliance deadline attached.

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News Release: Eby must reject federal gun confiscation​

VANCOUVER, B.C.: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Premier David Eby to join other premiers and reject Ottawa’s expensive and ineffective gun confiscation plan.

“The Eby government needs to stand up for taxpayers and refuse to help Ottawa waste more taxpayer money on a failed confiscation program,” said Carson Binda, B.C. Director for the CTF. “Law enforcement experts have been clear that confiscating firearms from hunters and sports shooters won’t make our streets safer.”

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew opposes Ottawa’s gun confiscation scheme.

“If we’re looking at taking away weapons from criminals … I’m all for that, but this program doesn’t look like it’s going to achieve that end,” said Kinew. “Instead, it’s going to create other issues around administration and costs.”

The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Yukon, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador and the Northwest Territories also oppose the program.

Law-enforcement experts have been clear that Ottawa’s confiscation program won’t make Canadians safer.

“I can’t think of a single time when a legal gun has been used in a crime in this city, not one,” said Toronto Police Association President Clayton Campbell. “We know that the gun buyback program is going to have essentially zero impact on the crime in Toronto.”

Ottawa’s confiscation “diverts extremely important personnel, resources and funding away from addressing the more immediate and growing threat of criminal use of illegal firearms,” according to the union that represents RCMP officers.

Prime Minister Mark Carney kicked off the confiscation with a pilot project in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The government planned on confiscating 200 firearms during the pilot, but only managed to collect 25.

The total cost of the gun confiscation may reach $6 billion, according to expert analysis.

“Eby needs to join Kinew and other premiers to oppose Ottawa’s gun confiscation,” Binda said. “B.C. should focus on real solutions to crime, not expensive virtue signaling targeting licensed hunters and sports shooters.”

 
Joining in with a LOT of others!

The Municipality of the Township of Low will soon present a non-binding resolution refusing to participate in the federal firearms buyback program. This program ignores illegal firearms and street gangs—the real sources of urban violence—and instead penalizes law-abiding citizens, turning them into offenders simply because of the passage of time. It is time to stop pretending to “do good” with measures that divide cities and rural areas rather than promote peace. Through this resolution, Low gives a voice to citizens who live peacefully and respectfully within their community. The Municipality has also submitted a draft resolution to the MRC de la Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, asking the Government of Quebec to withdraw its support for the program and to demand that the federal government cease all steps toward its implementation.
 

BERNARDO: Quebec First — Carney’s gun compensation scheme is designed to run out of money​

Quebec cashes in while other gun owners get nothing — inside Carney’s rigged compensation plan.

Do you believe Mark Carney’s Liberal government will compensate you fairly for your confiscated firearms?

We don’t, because this scheme only pays compensation in narrowly defined circumstances.

Declare, Beg, and Pray

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is crystal clear.

If you do not declare your guns by March 31, you won’t get a dime. No declaration = no compensation.

Your declaration is not automatically approved. It is an application for compensation, not a guarantee you’ll get any money.

Approval is no guarantee of compensation. The compensation scheme is capped at $260 million.

Compensation is handled on Ottawa’s terms, not yours. Amounts paid are based on make and model, and their assessment of your firearm’s value. Their decision is final.

Compliance is mandatory, compensation is conditional. The amnesty ends whether you were paid or not. If you don’t turn in your banned firearms by October 30, you could face criminal charges for illegal possession of a prohibited firearm, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.

That’s not a compensation program, it’s a confiscation scheme with a harsh criminal compliance deadline attached.

The Money: The Only Honest Part of the Entire Scheme

Public Safety Canada’s own language says the confiscation program will cost roughly $742 million. Of that, Public Safety clearly states that only $260 million is earmarked as “grants” for individuals who comply with the scheme’s demands.

That number matters, because it reveals the truth about their compensation scheme.

It’s not designed to compensate all legal gun owners.

It’s designed to pay a small percentage of gun owners (and screw the rest).

Carney’s capped compensation fund, declaration deadline, and first-come, first-served compensation means the province with the clearest path and the least friction will get most (or all) of the $260 million available.

That structure delivers what Mark Carney wants most: a predictable political outcome.

Hundreds of the firearms banned by the 2020 Order in Council and subsequent RCMP additions were classified as non-restricted before being added to the list.

Most owners of those now-prohibited firearms do not have a Restricted Possession and Acquisition Licence (RPAL).

This is why the Carney government demands you self-identify. It’s their only hope of figuring out who owns those firearms.

Unless you live in Quebec.

Quebec’s non-restricted firearms registry means they already know what guns licenced owners possess.

That’s a big incentive to participate. The alternative is a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.

The rational move for Quebec gun owners is to declare now because the province that declares first will drain the compensation pool.

Quebec Gun Confiscation Math

For Quebec, the 2024 Commissioner of Firearms report lists 437,575 Non-Restricted PAL holders, 56,140 Restricted PAL holders, and 5,553 Prohibited PAL holders.

Estimates of how many PAL holders are in possession of prohibited firearms range from 27% to over 50%.

Assuming that the AR-15 compensation of $1,337 per firearm, and 27% of Quebec PAL holders own now-prohibited firearms (Lowest gov’t estimate).

Quebec’s 192,996 affected gun owners will receive $240,443,740 in compensation.

That’s almost the entire fund, assuming Quebec’s PAL, RPAL, and PPAL holders only owned a single banned firearm. That’s not very likely.

Gun owners in other provinces won’t receive a dime.

Total Cost of Firearms Confiscation Compensation

If Ottawa was forced to pay compensation to all affected gun owners using 27% of PAL holders across the country, the total would easily surpass $1.6 billion.

If the real number approaches 50% of all PAL holders, total compensation would hit $2.1 billion, assuming every affected licence holder only owned a single now-prohibited firearm.

No wonder Carney’s Liberal government wants to cap compensation at $260 million. Paying it would cost more than the Liberals’ last firearms boondoggle, the $2 billion gun registry failure.

“Quebec First” is Not a Slogan, it is a Pattern

This policy began under Justin Trudeau, continues under Mark Carney, and follows the Liberals’ time-honoured playbook.

Quebec First.

Quebec Always.

Screw the rest of the country.

You don’t need an internal memo to see the incentives.

You need only look at the historical habit of feeding Quebec politically, then telling the rest of Canada to get in line.

Look at the math. A capped compensation pool does not pay all affected Canadian gun owners. At best, it pays a small slice of them.

So which slice does Ottawa pay first?

The slice that keeps the Liberal base happy.

The slice that delivers the cleanest headlines.

The slice that preserves their political brand.

If you think that’s a province other than Quebec, you aren’t paying attention.

The Implementation Layer is Opting Out

Here is the point that should end the debate for any honest observer.

The people Ottawa needs to run this confiscation scheme all refuse to have anything to do with it.

Provincial and territorial governments are publicly refusing to administer it:

Alberta

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Nova Scotia

Ontario (Doug Ford)

Saskatchewan

Northwest Territories

Yukon

Police services & associations across Canada are publicly refusing to participate:

Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP)

National Police Federation (RCMP union)

British Columbia Chiefs of Police

New Brunswick Chiefs of Police Association

New Brunswick - Saint John Police

Ontario - Chiefs of Police Association, President Mark Campbell "Lawfully owned rifles aren’t driving gang violence or crime. Smuggled handguns are."

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)

Ontario - Aylmer Police

Ontario - Barrie Police Service

Ontario - Brantford Police

Ontario - Brockville Police

Ontario - Chatham-Kent Police Service (CKPS)

Ontario - Durham Region Police Chief

Ontario - Hamilton Police

Ontario - Kawartha Lakes Police

Ontario - LaSalle Police Service

Ontario - London Police Service

Ontario - North Bay Police

Ontario - Owen Sound Police Service

Ontario - Peterborough Police

Ontario - Saugeen Shores Police Service

Ontario - Sarnia Police Force

Ontario - St. Thomas Police

Ontario - Strathroy-Caradoc Police Service

Ontario - Toronto Police Force

Ontario - Toronto Police Union

Ontario - West Grey Police

Ontario - Windsor Police

Ontario - Woodstock Police Service

Ontario - York Regional Police

PEI - Charlottetown Police

They’re saying — out loud — what Ottawa refuses to admit.

The program is vague.

It’s resource-heavy.

It’s not a public safety priority.

It’s nothing but public safety political theatre.

If the provinces will not endorse it and police forces will not run it, what exactly is this program?

A federal press release with a compliance deadline.

What You Need to Say Out Loud to Every Gun Owner You Know

This is the message.

Share it. Repeat it. Tattoo it on the inside of your eyelids if you have to.

If you do not apply, you get nothing.

If you apply, you must be approved.

If you are approved, compensation is still not guaranteed.

If you are processed after the money runs out, you get nothing.

If you are processed in time, Ottawa decides your gun’s value, not the market.

There isn’t enough money to make Canadian gun owners whole.

There is just enough money to create the illusion of compensation for a politically useful campaign that leaves everyone outside Quebec fighting over scraps.

So much can change between now and October 30.

Mark Carney’s spring election plan could backfire on him.

If that happens, this entire mess would be wiped away under a Conservative government led by Pierre Poilievre.

Do not turn in your guns until the deadline.

www.westernstandard.news

BERNARDO: Quebec First — Carney’s gun compensation scheme is designed to run out of money

Do you believe Mark Carney’s Liberal government will compensate you fairly for your confiscated firearms? We don’t, because this scheme only pays compensation in narrowly defined circumstances.
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Shocking and sickening here in our province. Can't imagine what is going on in such a small, close knit town. Hope the community gets all the help it needs.

Hopefully this will not be politicized by our desperate Ministry of Public safety, but it will come.
 
kingblazer84 said:
very sad, did you see the suspect though... yikes
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Going to be interesting to see how they got there there hands on a gun. Hope the parents were not keeping guns in the house when their kid is in that big of a mental crisis. Watching the national last night CBC said they knew who the suspect was and you could see they were choosing their words very carefully.
 
My local hunting Buddy's wife is from there - her whole family still lives there. They are all in shock. Small Community where pretty well everybody knows each other. They confirmed to me what the article below notes:

Suspect in Tumbler Ridge mass shooting identified by locals as 'trans'

The suspect has been identified as 18-year-old Jesse Strang.

At least ten people are dead and upwards of 25 injured following a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, a small community located 300 km northeast of Prince George.

The suspect, who was also found dead with what appeared to be "self-inflicted" wounds, has been identified by residents as 18-year-old Jesse Strang.

Among those who confirmed to the Western Standard that Strang was the shooter were Liam Irving and Juan van Heerden, both of whom grew up seeing him at school. They'd spoken with eight different people who were at Tumbler Ridge Secondary when the massacre took place.

"He was a couple of years younger than us grades wise," Irving explained. "He was a chill kid, he was alright, but he definitely gave off that, you know, quiet one out kind of kid ... Like, he wasn't, you know, destructive or obnoxious."
Van Heerden echoed his sentiments, labelling Strang "a quiet kid."
"We always seen him by himself," he said, "sitting by himself in the corner, always quiet."

The pair confirmed that Strang identified as transgender.

Before heading to the school, Strang allegedly murdered his mother and younger brother, both of whom were well known in the community.

"My mom was pretty good friends with the mother, Jennifer, and my little brother, who's also on the spectrum, was pretty close to Emmett, the younger boy," Irving said. "There's not one person in this town right now that's not affected by this."

Irving went on to explain that his mom was "in the school ... in the college area right on the top floor where it happened."
"She heard pretty much all the shots," he added, "and she said that she heard a lot of, you know, issues happening, and commotion."
Reports of an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School first started coming in around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday. A Police Initiated Public Alert was issued and officers arrived on scene a short time later.

In addition to the deceased, approximately 27 others were injured, including two with serious or life‑threatening injuries. One victim died while en route to hospital.

During a press conference Tuesday evening, Senior Media Relations Officer Kris Clark said there was little additional information the RCMP could divulge, though he did confirm that the "gunperson" found deceased was the same person described in the initial public alert.
He added that the RCMP is "committed to providing more information and providing answers to you in the coming days ahead."
As it stands, this is the third deadliest shooting in Canadian history, with only the École Polytechnique massacre of 1989 and Nova Scotia shootings in 2020 resulting in more casualties.

Upon hearing the news, Peace River South MLA Larry Neufeld informed residents he was "leaving Victoria immediately" to be with those impacted.

"Devastated to hear of the many innocent people murdered and injured in a senseless act of violence at a local high school in Tumbler Ridge," Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre wrote. "Our prayers are with the families, students, teachers, first responders, and the entire community grieving this profound loss."

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/breaking-at-least-7-dead-25-injured-after-female-shooter-opens-fire-in-tumbler-ridge/71081
 
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