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IronNoggin:
Legislative Assembly Urges Liberals Not To Use Resources For Firearms Confiscation
WHITEHORSE – A Yukon Party Official Opposition motion urging the Yukon government to ensure RCMP resources are not used to enforce the federal government’s gun confiscation program has passed.
The Yukon Legislative Assembly adopted the motion Wednesday afternoon with the support of Yukon Party and Yukon NDP MLAs.
The motion passed by the Legislative Assembly reads:
THAT this House urges the Yukon government to ensure that territorial policing resources are not diverted to assist in the implementation of the Government of Canada’s gun “buy-back” program.
“The National Police Federation, which is the union representing RCMP members, has made it clear that the Trudeau government’s Order in Council prohibiting various firearms and the ‘buy-back’ program will divert police resources away from dealing with organized crime,” Cathers said. “RCMP members said the federal Liberal government’s firearms measures actually divert important personnel and resources from where they are needed most. We are happy the motion passed, and hope the territorial government will respect the will of the Yukon Legislative Assembly.”
https://www.yukonpartycaucus.ca/legislative_assembly_urges_liberals_not_to_use_resources_for_firearms_confiscation
IronNoggin:
New Brunswick Now IN:
Ministers from four provinces oppose use of police resources for gun buyback
Justice and public safety ministers from four provinces called on the federal government to halt its plans to use RCMP and police resources during the coming confiscation of banned firearms.
According to the provincial government, ministers from Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and New Brunswick oppose the move, saying police resources are scarce and should be used to improve public safety rather than to “confiscate legally acquired firearms.” Instead, the ministers argued, gun crime should be fought through tighter border security, and by cracking down on smuggling and illegal firearms trafficking.
The four provinces also jointly called on the federal government to “ensure that no funding for the Guns and Gang Violence Action Fund or other public safety initiatives be diverted to the federal firearms confiscation program.”
“While we fully support crime initiatives that focus on the issues related to the criminal use of illegal firearms, preventing and combatting gang violence and addressing the issue of illegal or smuggled guns in our province, we don’t support those that impact law abiding hunters, sport shooters, ranchers, farmers and Indigenous people who use firearms for lawful and good reasons,” Saskatchewan Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre and Corrections, Policing and Public Safety Minister Christine Tell said in a joint statement.
Their comments were echoed in a statement by Kirk Austin, New Brunswick’s minister of public safety.
“New Brunswick’s bottom line is this: RCMP resources are spread thin as it is,” Austin said.
“We have made it clear to the Government of Canada that we cannot condone any use of those limited resources, at all, in their planned buyback program.”
https://northeastnow.com/2022/10/14/ministers-from-four-provinces-oppose-use-of-police-resources-for-gun-buyback/
IronNoggin:
Regina police chief says many questions still unanswered about federal gun buyback
By around this time next year, the Canadian government plans to be implementing its ban on all assault-style firearms.
In order to get those guns off the streets, the government wants to buy the weapons back from their owners.
Currently, there is an amnesty period in place until Oct. 30, 2023.
An amnesty period is designed to protect individuals and businesses who, at the time the prohibition came into force, were in lawful possession of a newly prohibited firearm from criminal liability while they take steps to comply with the law.
Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray is helping chair a firearms committee with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.
Speaking to Gormley on Wednesday, Bray said it was unlikely the feds will be able to get everything in place to buy back the guns by Oct. 30 next year.
“I was just informed on a call the other day that it is (more like) 2,000 styles of firearms that are going to be included in this ban. That in and of itself gets very complicated because you’re looking at characteristics of the firearms,” Bray said.
“I think it’s very safe to say we’re a long ways from rolling this out. I know they say they want to have this wrapped up by the end of October 2023, (but) I just don’t see that happening. They still don’t really have a plan about how this is going to roll out.”
https://panow.com/2022/10/19/regina-police-chief-says-many-questions-still-unanswered-about-federal-gun-buyback/
IronNoggin:
Mendicino Cares More About Drug Dealers than Your Family’s Safety
When political considerations drive government policy, the results are always disastrous for ordinary Canadians.
If Marco Mendicino actually cared about the safety of Canadians, he would plug the revolving door in our justice system that sees violent criminals arrested repeatedly for serious crimes – include violating Firearm Prohibition Orders – only to be released so they can commit more crimes.
This is a serious public safety issue we’ve raised regularly with this government, only to be ignored.
Neither Mendicino nor any of his Liberal predecessors have lifted a finger to stop this madness.
They don’t dare, because this Liberal government depends upon the ongoing violence committed by these criminals to keep uninformed voters scared. As we’ve learned, a terrified population will accept any measure, no matter how absurd, so long as it promises that most beloved of all unicorns, safety.
Mendicino uses the tragic deaths caused by violent criminals, drug dealers and gang members to perpetuate his government’s lie.
“If we take guns away from law-abiding Canadians, criminals will stop shooting up Canadian streets. We promise!”
In a land of Liberal unicorns and fairy dust, maybe, but not here on Planet Earth where more government regulation didn’t prevent 1,791 convicted criminals from violating their existing Firearm Prohibition Orders in 2021.
Nor will it stop the estimated 1,853 convicted criminals who will violate their Firearm Prohibition Orders by the end of this year.
It is to Canada’s eternal shame that our Liberal Prime Minister and successive Ministers of Public Safety are, like a horse with blinders on, focused on the only thing they can see: more votes from uninformed Canadians.
Keeping Canadians safe never enters their minds, beyond their use of the phrase to distort reality to suit their self-serving agenda.
Their endless, deceitful virtue signalling on firearms notwithstanding, confiscating lawfully-possessed firearms from licensed Canadian gun owners will never stop violent criminals, drug dealers and gang members from shooting innocent people in our major cities.
You don’t solve a problem by ignoring it.
You solve a problem by dealing with it, no matter how difficult or how politically unpopular it may be.
It’s called behaving with integrity – an ideal our political class has long forgotten.
The sooner all Canadians wake up to this stark reality, the better off we all will be.
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IronNoggin:
Police chiefs urge Ottawa not to rely on forces to oversee gun buyback program
Canadian police chiefs are urging the federal government not to rely on resource-strapped police forces to carry out a planned gun buyback.
Regina Police Chief Evan Bray, appearing at a House of Commons committee on behalf of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, says the buyback will be an administrative process involving a massive amount of work.
Bray told MPs that police are already overstretched and lack the resources to administer the buyback program.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9231421/canadian-police-chiefs-gun-buyback-program/
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