Trudeau promises more gun control and goes on the attack against Scheer

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Didn't take long for Global to put their spin on this tragedy...

Mass shootings have prompted Canadian gun laws to change over the decades​

Mass shootings in Canada — including an April 2020 rampage in Nova Scotia — have spurred changes to gun laws in recent decades.

Few details were available Wednesday on the type of firearm used in Tuesday’s mass shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., which left nine people dead, including the suspect, and many others injured.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said two firearms — a long gun and a modified handgun — were recovered by responding officers.

“Determining the origin of these firearms and what role they played in the shootings remains a significant part of the active and ongoing investigation,” McDonald told reporters in Surrey, B.C.

Since May 2020, the federal Liberals have outlawed about 2,500 types of firearms, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14, on the basis they belong only on the battlefield.

Prohibited firearms and devices must be disposed of — or deactivated — by the end of an amnesty period on Oct. 30.

Firearms rights advocates and the federal Conservatives have accused the government of targeting law-abiding gun owners and have denounced the program as a poor use of taxpayer dollars.

Gun-control advocates have applauded the compensation program while criticizing the government for not banning new sales of the semi-automatic SKS rifle.

The SKS is commonly used in Indigenous communities to hunt for food. It also has been used in police killings and other high-profile shootings in recent years.

The government is carrying out a broad review of Canada’s firearms classification regime that will include consultations with Indigenous communities on the SKS.

The Liberals also have taken steps to restrict handguns, increase penalties for firearms trafficking, keep firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers and curb homemade ghost guns.

In 1989, a gunman armed with a Ruger Mini-14 and a hunting knife murdered 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.

In the early 1990s, federal legislation toughened penalties for gun-related crimes and ushered in new measures on acquiring and storing firearms.

The Liberal government of Jean Chrétien created a universal registry for firearms, including ordinary rifles and shotguns, in the mid-1990s.

The registry was lambasted by critics as a needless intrusion into the lives of farmers, hunters and sport shooters, and touted by others as a worthy tool for police who used it to glean crucial information.

Stephen Harper’s Conservatives introduced legislation to scrap universal registration, ending the requirement to register non-restricted firearms.

Mass shootings have prompted Canadian gun laws to change over the decades | Globalnews.ca

While details on the firearm used in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. are not yet known, other mass shootings in Canada have spurred changes to gun laws in recent decades.

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RCMP incompetence put 2.2 million Canadian gun owners in harm’s way and the Liberal government hid it​

When the RCMP and Bill Blair hid a massive firearms registry leak from 2.2 million Canadians, they didn't just fail at IT—they handed organized crime a shopping list for your front door.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have proven themselves incompetent and untrustworthy before, but never at this scale.

In 2021, the RCMP presided over a massive data breach.

More than 2.2 million licenced firearms owners were affected.

Names. Addresses. Contact details. Licencing records.

A veritable Christmas wish list for criminals, and everyone responsible for it stayed quiet.

This was not a minor IT mishap. It was a catastrophic failure of basic data stewardship.

The RCMP outsourced core functions of the Canadian Firearms Program to an unidentified third party. That vendor was hit with a ransomware attack.

The RCMP insisted that, while there “was no indication that any personal information was viewed or extracted, it is not possible to confirm that it was not accessed.”

Read that again.

“It is not possible to confirm,” yet the RCMP chose to give themselves a full pass instead of holding themselves accountable.

Again, those who follow such things know this is nothing new. It’s long and well-documented that this is exactly how the RCMP operates.

Protect the institution.

Blame everyone except themselves.

While Canadians slept, while the RCMP downplayed the risk to their political masters, and while Public Safety Minister Bill Blair hid the data breach from licenced gun owners. Organized criminals had a target-rich list to choose which guns they would steal and from whom.

The breach occurred in March 2021, but the RCMP reported it only months later. During this time, the Minister of Public Safety deliberately withheld information from the public.

No warning. No disclosure. No urgent guidance for the millions of people and their families placed at risk by the RCMP’s incompetence and Minister Bill Blair’s cover-up.

Bill Blair’s decision to hide the RCMP data breach exposed families to burglary, intimidation, and theft.

Every break and enter of a licenced gun owner can arguably be placed at the feet of the RCMP and then-Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair.

As the former Chief of the Toronto Police Service, Bill Blair understood exactly what a mass exposure of firearms owner data meant.

Yet, in longstanding Bill Blair fashion, he chose to protect his career instead of doing his job: protecting the lives and property of 2.2 million licenced Canadian gun owners.

It was more important to insulate himself and Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government than to issue a valid and urgent public warning.

That’s not leadership. That’s criminal negligence.

When you are uncertain, it is important to inform those who might be affected. In situations where millions are at risk, it is crucial to respond with urgency. Additionally, when mistakes occur, it is essential to be honest and transparent about the truth.

That’s the opposite of what happened.

The Liberal government intentionally hid the scale of the data breach for years. The vendor was never named, oversight was always deflected, and accountability never entered the process.

Lawful firearms owners did everything required of them. In return, the Canadian government failed its most basic duty: to protect the data it demands from the people it regulates.

This is why trust within the RCMP and this Liberal government is broken.

Public safety is not a press release. It is a responsibility.

In 2021, that responsibility was abandoned by the RCMP and the Liberal federal government.

The RCMP must be held accountable for operational incompetence.

The Liberal government must answer for its deliberate lack of transparency, which put 2.2 million Canadians in harm’s way.

And Parliament must demand independent oversight, mandatory data breach notification, and consequences for officials who choose silence over public safety.

BERNARDO: RCMP incompetence put 2.2 million Canadian gun owners in harm’s way and the Liberal government hid it

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have proven themselves incompetent and untrustworthy before, but never at this scale. In 2021, the RCMP presided over a massive data breach. More than 2.2 million licenced firearms owners were affected. Names. Addresses. Contact details. Licencing records.

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