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Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino makes a gun-control announcement

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IronNoggin:
LILLEY UNLEASHED: Trudeau has lost both sides on gun control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmrJFZ0MdKw

IronNoggin:
A Lawyer Explains Canada's Further Gun Bans (More C-21 Amendments)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRNCrJjYPeY

IronNoggin:
The stunning fall of the once-promising Marco Mendicino

The public safety minister is a bright and articulate former federal prosecutor who was determined and perhaps destined to be a rising star in the Justin Trudeau cabinet.

Recent antics underline what is becoming a stunning fall from grace for Mendicino as he stumbles and bumbles badly from issue to hot-button issue after just 18 months on the job.

Two-year-old revelations from Canada’s spy agency surfaced Monday which found that respected Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family in Hong Kong had endured Chinese state intimidation after his vote to condemn that country’s atrocious human rights record.

This refusal to answer the what-they-knew and when-they-knew-it question was repeated more than a dozen times Tuesday with Conservative, Bloc Quebecois and NDP MPs lining up as one to demand a clear response while, tellingly, the cheerleading Liberal MPs surrounding Mendicino mostly sat on their hands.

Then came Wednesday. Suddenly the entire Chong script changed.

After days of ignoring specific questions, the prime minister and Mendicino emerged to declare they learned about it on Monday.

Mendicino’s poor handling of this incendiary issue was just another hit on the soundtrack of his very bad year.

He was forced into a pride-swallow Tuesday by diluting his original assault-style firearms ban.

The new ban will only prohibit weapons manufactured in the future or those not even invented yet -- a jaw-dropping retreat for a minister who said banishing all these guns was essential to public safety just last year.

He recently declared that Chinese police stations in Canada had been closed by the RCMP, when they were not.

A two-year-old promise to set up a foreign agent registry in Canada, similar to what exists in the U.S. and other countries, has been spun off by Mendicino for pointless consultations without an end date.

His planned changes to allow crucial humanitarian assistance to flow into Afghanistan, where groups are holding back aid out of fear they’ll run afoul of Canada’s anti-terrorism laws, are moving forward in glacial slow-motion.

And lest we forget the notorious fib when he insisted police forces advised the government to invoke the Emergencies Act against the Ottawa convoy protest, a statement police deny.

There are many other missteps going back to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal when he was immigration minister, but space limits the list.

Sadly, Marco Mendicino’s once-bright future as a credible cabinet influencer has been hobbled by his so-many missteps.

He has clearly got to go.

That’s the bottom line..

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-martin-the-stunning-fall-of-the-once-promising-marco-mendicino-1.6382574

IronNoggin:
Mass Casualty recommendations wouldn't have stopped N.S. massacre, and won't stop others

The government has renewed its push on Bill C-21, drawing on recommendations in the report by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), which had been tasked with investigating the causes of the 2020 mass killing in Nova Scotia. Yet if the commission was aiming to prevent another mass killing, it missed the target.

One recommended measure was identical to the proposed Liberal amendments banning semi-automatic firearms that were added without consultation into Bill C-21 and then removed following widespread opposition, only to be re-added in a slightly altered form earlier this week. Others include limiting the amount and type of ammunition an individual can purchase and store.

These proposed recommendations suffer from the same problems as the rest of the government’s post-2019 firearms policies: they are aimed at the wrong people, ignore Canadian research and would be almost impossible to implement in the Canadian context.

While tragic, mass shootings in Canada are so vanishingly rare, their frequency is actually marginally lower than non-firearm mass homicide rates. The strict vetting process that Canadian gun owners go through to enjoy the privilege of firearms ownership makes them less likely than the general population to commit murder.

Firearms smuggled from the United States are responsible for the overwhelming majority of gun crime in Canada’s major cities and illegal guns have been the weapons of choice for some recent mass murderers, whose violent histories often make getting a gun license impossible.

Policy is about making choices with limited resources. Continuing to pile irrelevant rules on licensed gun owners would be like fixating on a faucet that occasionally drips while ignoring the burst water main flooding your basement.

Canada’s focus should be on putting resources where they will help the most: securing the border, providing mental health support for Canadians and funding evidence-based community programs to divert at-risk youth from gangs. If the government seeks to prioritize public safety, it should not tilt at expensive windmills.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mass-casualty-commission-recommendations-wouldnt-have-stopped-n-s-massacre-and-wont-stop-others

IronNoggin:
Have gun-control advocates finally had enough of Liberal abuse?

Last week I wrote about potentially serious threats to the federal Liberals’ well-worn schtick on abortion. PolySeSouvient, a gun-control advocacy group representing victims and survivors of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, signalled another potential threat to traditional Liberal campaigning this week: The federal government’s latest gun-control push having collapsed in a heap of incompetence, overreach and cynicism — never forget the Liberals saw political gain to be had in the April 2020 Central Nova Scotia massacre — PolySeSouvient declared that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would no longer be welcome at Polytechnique memorials.

Canada’s modern Conservatives certainly aren’t anti-gun control. Their advocacy for law-abiding gun owners usually takes the form of rolling back what they see as overreaching Liberal rules and regulations — almost all of which are nibbling around the edges, and that’s where most of this debate occurs nowadays. (Public safety does not hinge on how you can transport a weapon from A to B, for example.)

Marco Mendicino, the most useless public safety minister since his useless predecessor Bill Blair, tried to play gun-control advocates off each other, noting that Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns and the Coalition for Gun Control both support the new proposed amendments. (So what’s wrong with you, PolySeSoouvient?) He said the new proposals came from the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission’s recommendations, which is not true: That report suggested banning all weapons meeting a certain standard, not just ones invented in future.

Deny Trudeau his symbolic gestures, events and photo ops, and you hit him where it hurts. If the Liberals don’t have those, they don’t have much of anything. And it would be about bloody time.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/have-gun-control-advocates-had-enough

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