Trudeau promises more gun control and goes on the attack against Scheer
- Thread starter IronNoggin
- Start date
IronNoggin
Well-Known Member
The cost of the so-called "Assault-Style Firearm Compensation Program" eclipses $1BN, according to Public Safety's recently released 2026-2027 budget, which includes $145.1M for the ASFCP.
This figure notably includes $64.8M in compensation for participants in the program; a significantly lower figure than the ~$250M promised previously, and just $28.8M earmarked for private contractors as the program moves into its most complicated and labour-intensive stage with the collection, shipping, warehousing, inventorying, verification, destruction, and eventual disposal of confiscated firearms.
In other words, while these initial budgetary figures push the program's overall cost north of the heady $1-billion dollar mark, in all likelihood, that will simply be the starting point as the program moves into its most cost-intensive and unpredictable phase.
Check out the article here, which includes sources for the figures cited: https://calibremag.ca/...
This figure notably includes $64.8M in compensation for participants in the program; a significantly lower figure than the ~$250M promised previously, and just $28.8M earmarked for private contractors as the program moves into its most complicated and labour-intensive stage with the collection, shipping, warehousing, inventorying, verification, destruction, and eventual disposal of confiscated firearms.
In other words, while these initial budgetary figures push the program's overall cost north of the heady $1-billion dollar mark, in all likelihood, that will simply be the starting point as the program moves into its most cost-intensive and unpredictable phase.
Check out the article here, which includes sources for the figures cited: https://calibremag.ca/...
IronNoggin
Well-Known Member
IronNoggin
Well-Known Member
IronNoggin
Well-Known Member
According to Treasury Board documents, the total amount of compensation available to participants of the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program has been heavily reduced, from $250M promised in January of this year to just $64.8M for the 2026 fiscal year - which, coincidentally, begins the day after the ASFCP's declaration window closes and the process of confiscation, verification, destruction, disposal and processing payments begins in earnest.
In other words, the amount of compensation available to firearms owners has been quietly reduced by 74% before the process of issuing payments to individuals has even properly begun, and may have ramifications for those firearms owners who declared their firearms early in the hopes of having their claim processed before the previously claimed $250M fund was exhausted, as well as firearms owners who may have been considering declaring their firearms to the ASFCP before the declaration period ends on March 31.
In other words, the amount of compensation available to firearms owners has been quietly reduced by 74% before the process of issuing payments to individuals has even properly begun, and may have ramifications for those firearms owners who declared their firearms early in the hopes of having their claim processed before the previously claimed $250M fund was exhausted, as well as firearms owners who may have been considering declaring their firearms to the ASFCP before the declaration period ends on March 31.
seachicken
Well-Known Member
And you really have to wonder how many of these declared firearms are from people that have inherited firearms and have no clue what to do with them but offer them up assuming they will get $2 for them. Maybe on the "list", maybe not.
