Posted on 08/06/2022 2:57:28 AM PDT by Candor7
Government says there has been an uptick in handgun purchases since introduction of new gun legislation
The federal government plans to fast-track a ban on the import of handguns into the country without the approval of Parliament using a regulatory measure that comes into effect in two weeks, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced Friday.
The change will last until a permanent freeze is passed in Parliament and comes into force.
The government tabled gun control legislation in May that includes a national freeze on the importation, purchase, sale and transfer of handguns in Canada.
That law did not pass before Parliament took its summer break, and is set to be debated again when MPs return to Ottawa in the fall.
In the meantime, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said she has the authority to ban any import or export permit in Canada.
"Working with Marco, we came up with this idea of creating this new system of requiring permits," Joly said. "But meanwhile, we will deny any permits." Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced that the Liberals will be introducing a temporary ban on the importation of restricted handguns. Medincio was joined by Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly and Liberal MP Yvan Baker. (Robert Krbavac/CBC)
The temporary ban will prevent businesses from importing handguns into Canada, with a few exceptions that mirror those in the legislation tabled in May.
"Given that nearly all our handguns are imported, this means that we're bringing our national handgun freeze even sooner," Mendicino said. "From that moment forward, the number of handguns in Canada will only go down." Handgun imports have been on the rise
Government trade data shows Canada imported $26.4 million worth of pistols and revolvers between January and June — a 52 per cent increase compared to the same period last year.
PolySeSouvient, a group that represents survivors and families of victims of gun violence, applauded the government's approach to freezing imports in a statement released Friday.
"This is a significant and creative measure that will unquestionably slow the expansion of the Canadian handgun market until Bill C-21 is adopted, hopefully this fall," said Nathalie Provost, a survivor of the Ecole Polytechnique shooting in Montreal in 1989. Liberals blame Conservatives for holding up legislation
Conservative public safety critic Raquel Dancho said the move targets law-abiding citizens and businesses rather than illegal and smuggled guns.
"Instead of addressing the true source of gun crime in Canada, the Liberal government is unilaterally banning imports without parliamentary input, impacting a multi-billion dollar industry and thousands of retailers and small businesses, with very little notice," Dancho said in a statement after the announcement.
In the announcement, Mendicino accused the Official Opposition of obstructing the passage of the bill and other gun control measures. Dancho, meanwhile, said the Conservatives support addressing illegal gun smuggling and accused the Liberals of creating a wedge issue out of gun control while making communities less safe.
Mendicino said he's been visiting land borders over the summer to make sure the government has the staff and technology in place to address illegally smuggled weapons as well.
There is a reason Trudeau wants to disarm Canadians and it is because he plans a Great Socialist Reset in whichi Canada will become a totalitarian state under the Progressive ideological guidance of Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum. Trudeau is one of Schwab's greatest fans. Social Control, euthanasia, family destroyed , children raised by government.
You are really gonna love it ! ( sarc.)
Celebrate Folks! Especially you Canadians who think you will be able to keep your handguns and semi auto rifles! You are noew living in a Trudeau re-imagined Canada. This is major SUCK!
No matter how Canadians suffer, he will protect the Golden Triangle and Vancouver to maintain his power base.
At least, until it is too late for them as well.
My sister, in Kingston, is pro-Trudeau.
I have relatives who live in Canada and ALL of them are effed up. On drugs, on government assistance and something I saw a few weeks ago got me especially sick, the young daughter of one of my cousins (a single mom of course) had really rotten looking teeth “meth mouth” which is what they call it. It really slaps reality upside your head how much socialism destroys.
The last time I was up there was around 1986 and that was it for me, everything was drugs drugs drugs. My other cousin was this gorgeous woman, now she’s on “disability” and looks like an 80 year old when she’s only in her 50s, really shocking stuff. Any politician who pushes socialism should be taken into the back of a building, tied to a post and shot dead and burned, seriously.
Am sure the criminals are quaking in their boots. As someone up here in the Great White North, I am willing to tell people here that this whole thing will sink fast and that it certainly will not do wonders for the current government’s popularity which is also in decline very much even in the face of a Tory party in the midst of a leadership race.
So they are putting a proposed law into effect BEFORE it’s actually passed. Why even have a parliament? Just rule by decree.
We don’t need any stinking law.
We are the law we can do anything we want.
We don’t need any stinking law.
We are the law we can do anything we want.
The Prime Minister in Canada is more powerful in his country than the US President is in his.
It looks like they are. Does it look like an ex post facto law in reverse?
No property rights either or any rights.
Canada’s Constitution is a bunch of permissions.
I am thinking that the rise in unpopularity is the reason for the gun ban.
The government will rapidly become very unpopular, but then it will be too late.
Is that because he looks so much like his mom's special friend down in La Habana?
No. She lives in the Golden Triangle, so she doesn’t know how bad he is to the other parts of Canada.
In Canada, the media crafts their message so that the protected parts of the country thinks that the Federal government is a federal government to all CAnadians.
Consequently, they think all those in the hinterlands are unreasonable whiners.
Did you know, for instance, that Alberta is a net recipient of equalization? Yep, according to Eastern Canadians, Alberta is a drain on the national treasury and not a net contributor.
I wonder if, eventually, they will simply kill everyone who disagrees with them?
The four cities that support Trueshit will support him no matter what.
They think he’s a hero for doing the gun ban.
They will be protected at all costs from the consequences of his policies, until it is too late.
Be nice to see an armed uprising from our northern neighbors.
temporarily...until permanent
Beyond Orwellian
Is the government still issuing baby bonuses or did that get melted into child care?
When most of the populace is dependent on the government the government wins they just turn off the spigot to get your attention, when you fall back in line they reopen it
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