04/20/2025
The Liberals, with nothing else to focus on now that Trump has quieted down, have pivoted to their old favourite: Lawful Fi****ms Owners.
Not a single fi****ms owner should consider voting Liberal this election.
𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐮𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥, 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐒𝐞𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭
𝐽𝑖𝑚 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝐶𝑇𝑉 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠
𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
An influential gun-control group says Mark Carney’s Liberals are the ones most likely to deliver additional measures needed to prevent firearm-related violence.
In a media statement issued Tuesday, PolySeSouvient cited past Liberal moves to ban fi****ms considered too dangerous for hunting or sport shooting, as well as measures to protect women and children from gun violence.
The Liberals are the party “most likely” to follow through with a federal plan to remove banned guns from circulation, outlaw large-capacity magazines and fully implement measures related to domestic violence, PolySeSouvient coordinator Heidi Rathjen said in the statement.
In Montreal on Tuesday, the group joined representatives of student associations and families of victims of the 1989 massacre of 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique to assess the actions and commitments of federal parties.
The evaluation was based on party positions, actions and votes on firearm legislation, public pledges by leaders to stakeholder groups and a survey sent to each party at the start of the current election campaign.
Canadians head to the polls for a general election on April 28.
Since May 2020, the Liberal government has banned more than 2,500 varieties of what it calls assault-style fi****ms -- semi-automatics with sustained rapid-fire capability.
Government officials say some 19,000 unique makes and models of non-restricted fi****ms remain available for hunting or sport shooting in Canada.
Early last month, the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights called the latest move to ban certain types of guns “deceitful and deceptive” and rejected the argument that Liberal measures have had no effect on hunting or recreational shooting.
A federal buyback program would give current owners compensation for their outlawed fi****ms. The program is already available to businesses and the Liberals planned to begin expanding it to individual owners this spring.
At the dissolution of Parliament last month, the Liberals were still implementing some elements of gun control legislation that had already received royal assent, including provisions to better respond to instances of firearm-related violence involving intimate partners and families.
Nathalie Provost, who was shot at Polytechnique and worked alongside Rathjen, is now running for the Liberals in a Quebec riding.
PolySeSouvient said Tuesday that while the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Quebecois and Greens have all committed to completing the planned gun buyback and implementing other outstanding measures, only the commitments made by the Liberals, Bloc and Greens are credible.
PolySeSouvient also said a vote for the Bloc would guarantee strong support from at least one opposition party for the Liberals’ gun control measures.
The group said the Conservatives did not respond to its survey.
PolySeSouvient pointed out that the Tories have been very clear over the last four years about their opposition to Liberal gun measures.
“We are going to repeal the Liberal ban on our licensed, law-abiding, trained and tested hunters and sport shooters,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre recently told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.
He said the Conservatives would redirect the money saved into securing the border with scanners, watchtowers and more officers to intercept smuggled guns, drugs and stolen cars.
Several other voices for stricter firearm control issued a statement Tuesday as election day draws closer.
“We need to strengthen, not weaken, the evidence-based gun control laws that keep us safe,” said Dr. Najma Ahmed, a trauma surgeon and co-chair of Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns.
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𝘿𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡/𝙉𝘿𝙋 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 (𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝘿𝙋 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙮 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙨) ,𝘾-𝟏𝟖 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧, 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚, 𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝒂𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆, 𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝑿 𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒔.
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