‘Massive endeavour’: feds face difficult task in finding contractors for gun buyback scheme, expert warns
‘The government has to rely on the private sector and qualified businesses to do the work,’ said the University of Ottawa’s J.L. Gilles LeVasseur.
Gun control and affordability legislation provides much-needed ‘arrow in the quiver’ for Liberals going into 2024, say political strategists
Bills that received royal assent on Dec. 15 as the House wrapped up its work for 2023 include Bill C-21, the Liberals’ gun control legislation; and Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act.
Evidence points to the future success of Bill C-21
The bill, currently under study at a Senate committee, would make permanent a May 2020 regulatory ban on the use, purchase, and sale of more than 1,500 types of firearms, and bring into law several other gun control measures.
Firearms legislation about ‘preventing harms,’ says Senate committee chair ahead of fall discussions
Bill C-21, the Liberal government’s firearms legislation, will be up for consideration by the Senate’s Defence Committee this fall.
Gun rights activists call Liberal backtrack on firearms ban a ‘massive retreat,’ but not a victory
The Liberals’ failure to ‘do their homework’ and consult with Indigenous communities burned political capital and left the government back where it started last fall, says NDP strategist Cam Holmstrom.
Mass Casualty Commission misses the mark
After three years and more than $25-million, it is inexplicable that the commissioners did not do a deeper dive into how the RCMP was structured, writes Sheila Copps.
Withdrawing Bill C-21 amendments puts pressure on Liberals from urban-rural divide, says pollster
The Liberals pulled back controversial amendments to Bill C-21, which critics argued would restrict access to hunting rifles. But gun control activist Heidi Rathjen says ‘disinformation has won over the facts’ on the bill.
Liberal about-turn on Bill C-21 marks failure of historically significant gun control reform
The amendments would have prohibited many semi-automatic weapons capable of carrying large amounts of ammunition by introducing a new ‘evergreen’ firearm classification system.
Where was the outrage when Const. Andrew Hong was gunned down, writes Toronto reader
The shooting death of Ontario Provincial Police officer Grzegorz Pierzchala on Dec. 27, 2022, was both tragic and horrific. With that being said, though, I recognize an all too familiar pattern from conservative politicians and journalists which seems to occur whenever an innocent white person is shot to death in public: there are howls of outrage for days on […]
Hockey players should stay out of politics
Carey Price learned that lesson last week when he weighed in on the current anti-gun debate roiling in the House of Commons.
