The war on Canadian gun owners will only ramp up until the next federal election. Pictured: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo Credit: Justin Trudeau/X.
Occasionally Ottawa does something so outrageous, one wonders if the news is parody or reality. The decision to ban more kinds of firearms and donate them to Ukraine is the latest example.
On Dec. 5 Public Safety Minister Domenic LeBlanc announced a ban on 324 more firearms, adding to the list of 1,500 banned under Bill C-21. The bill, introduced in 2020, was finally passed by the Senate last year.
The announcement came one day before the 35th anniversary of the massacre of 14 women at École Polytechnic in Montreal. This was optics over relevance. It mattered little how many of these makes and models weren’t around in 1989 when the event occurred, or that no similar mass murder came until after the lockdown madness of COVID times.
The first time a mass shooting was used to justify a Liberal gun ban, the efforts backfired horribly. In April 2020, just days after a gunman posed as a police officer and killed 22 people in Nova Scotia, the Liberals announced they would confiscate assault rifles. It seems Trudeau-appointed RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki wanted the connection made clear to the public.
Phone transcripts and notes submitted by Nova Scotia RCMP Superintendent Darren Campbell to the Mass Casualty Commission showed just ten days after the murders, Lucki was upset that investigators didn’t publicize what weapons were used.
Lucki acknowledged the “protocol” of keeping some information from the public during investigations, but also complained she “felt completely disrespected by the fact that I was told that Darren was going to talk about the guns in his speaking note and as soon as I got confirmation I advised the Minister’s office and then it wasn’t there.”
So what’s more important: a properly-conducted investigation or justifying Liberal gun confiscation? The public relations setback left the gun buyback in limbo. However, the recent milestone anniversary of the Montreal massacre gave the Liberals an excuse to renew their efforts and put them on steroids.
“Next Friday, December 13, we will table regulations to ensure that no firearm can come into Canada or be sold in Canada without first being approved by the RCMP,” LeBlanc explained.
“And, no later than the end of January, we will table additional measures in Parliament to address the rates of gun violence in situations of gender-based and intimate partner violence. We will also introduce further regulations on red and yellow flag laws early this spring and regulations on large capacity magazines no later than March.”
Prior to becoming Liberal leader, Montreal MP Justin Trudeau was much more reasonable. I filmed Justin Trudeau myself on Parliament Hill back on Sept. 22, 2010, when told gun registry protesters that gun confiscation would never take place.
“The fear in here is that…registering your guns is just the first step to taking away guns from everyone,” Trudeau said. “That’s never going to happen because here in Canada we have a culture that has grown up with guns and that respects the need to go out into the wilderness and shoot things from time to time.”
Before walking away, Trudeau said the minority Conservatives would face “an election soon” and warned, “The Conservatives will say and do anything to stay in power.”
By now, everything has flipped. Trudeau, the one who promised disarmament would never happen, made it happen himself, and skipped that alleged intermediate step of a gun registry altogether. He is also saying and doing all things necessary to extend or renew his tenuous rule.
You see, LeBlanc announced that gun owners have amnesty from criminal charges until October 30, 2025. Not coincidentally, an election must be called for Oct. 20 or earlier. The Liberals rely on votes in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver to win elections and gun control initiatives pander to these centre-left urbanites. The Liberals are going big, lest they have to go home and leave their seats in Parliament.
The aggressive grab of assault rifles represents a federal assault on legal gun owners. No Canadian study has associated them with greater crime rates than the general population. However, they’ve been painted as the bad guys that must be stopped, just like Russia. Remarkably, LeBlanc and the Liberals have found a way to tie these two disparate narratives together.
“[T]he government of Canada has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine,” LeBlanc explained.
It is sheer madness that an elected government would disarm its own citizens in the name of democracy, then use those weapons to keep poking the Bear (Russia). Long after NATO’s pretense to exist (the Cold War) has ended, it keeps goading an enemy with 1,000 nukes and unstoppable hypersonic conventional missiles.
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, and the Ukraine-Russia war will reach a resolution. Unfortunately, the war on Canadian gun owners will only ramp up until the next federal election. They and their fellow Canadians deserve better.
