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[LJ]

They have no intention of starting buyback before election IMO. They want to make the Cons look bad if they rescind the bans or spend a billion on forced buyback.

The Cons aren't going to look bad if they rescind the law, they will look like they are rational sensible people. Nobody really thinks this is going to keep Canadians safer than they are now, only the criminals will have guns.

[lanforod]

Oh, it’s not the rescinding per se. it’s the never ending Liberal news bites afterwards a la “they don’t care for your safety!” And “this conservatives are just like the gun loving Americans!”

[Mike K.]

There is actually a ton of small bore .22LR rimfire rifles on the ban list. So they did ban nearly every model... including the smallest calibre.

True, I suppose not banning virtually every 22LR made me misspeak.

The Conservatives are going to use common sense to say spending billions of taxpayer dollars to buy back firearms of law abiding citizens makes absolutely no sense.

And the proof is the Liberals did not buy back any weapons they deemed too dangerous for Canadians to own.

[LJ]

Oh, it’s not the rescinding per se. it’s the never ending Liberal news bites afterwards a la “they don’t care for your safety!” And “this conservatives are just like the gun loving Americans!”

It was Trudeau who stated we have a gun culture in Canada and he would never take firearms away from law abiding citizens. Oh how the lies pile up.

[Mike K.]

What if even the Liberals want this all to be over, without voting themselves out, but the other parties are keeping them in power to make them go down as the most disliked Canadian political party in history?

[Victoria Watcher]

What if even the Liberals want this all to be over, without voting themselves out

 

They are free to call an election any time, they do not need to fall in a vote.

[Mike K.]

Although, I didn’t say Trudeau wants it to be over.

He alone must ask the GG to dissolve government, I think?

[Victoria Watcher]

Although, I didn’t say Trudeau wants it to be over.

He alone must ask the GG to dissolve government, I think?

 

I'm not sure if his party has a formal mechanism to take him out (like a mandatory leadership review), but if the majority of his cabinet resigned, he would be forced to quit as leader. This happened in the UK (to Boris).

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 December 2024 - 08:38 PM.

[Mike K.]

I feel like the ministers are out of steam. The public appearances are no longer full of promise. They’d like to go on vacation, I think.

Even Hotel Mike gave up!

[Mike K.]

Minister of Safety recorded in private conservation saying the quiet part out loud.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says he doubts local police will have the resources to enforce the Liberals’ mandatory gun “buy-back” program and that the reason Prime Minister Mark Carney is sticking with the policy is to appease voters in Quebec.

That’s according to a roughly 20-minute conversation the minister had on Sunday with a tenant, which the minister says is authentic but was recorded without his knowledge and then circulated by a “gun lobbyist.”

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The Liberals had planned to move ahead this fall with the next phase of the program, which would cover individuals who own one of the 1,500 “assault-style firearms” former prime minister Justin Trudeau banned in the wake of the deadly 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

“Don’t ask me to explain the logic on this to you, OK,” the minister tells the individual he is speaking with, after revealing the date of the forthcoming announcement, adding that the person “may not be happy” with the news.

The individual, who identifies himself as a gun owner, repeatedly questions the minister on the policy. At one point, Anandasangaree offers to pay him the difference in compensation and even bail him out of jail, given that the person informs him that he will not hand over his property.

- https://nationalpost...tm_source=index

It’s like if California’s self-determination was dominated by Mississippi, or New York’s by Utah’s. That’s how crazy Canadian politics has become.

[lanforod]

Do what I say, not what I do (unless you're my buddy, then do what I tell you in 'secret')...

[Mike K.]

At one point, Anandasangaree offers to pay him the difference in compensation and even bail him out of jail.

 

 

What sort of a landlord-tenant conversation was this, and what is the relationship between these two? Odd.