Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, on his last business day in office, has tacked on another 179 unique gun models to Canada’s list of prohibited firearms.
The Trudeau Liberals in December added 324 firearms to the list, provoking an outcry from firearms groups and even the Toronto Police Association. There are now more than 2,000 prohibited firearms on the government’s list of scary guns.
“Today our government is finishing the job,” said Trudeau’s official languages minister, Rachel Bendayan, at a press conference Friday morning.
Bendayan announced the new rules, proudly citing her “work of the last 11 weeks” to prepare the policy after she was appointed associate minister of public safety.
“This is also personal,” she said in her opening remarks, “as a mother, a lawyer, an elected official.”
“A further 179 unique makes and models of assault-style weapons [have been added] to the list of prohibited firearms here in Canada,” she said.
“This prohibition takes effect immediately.”
The complete list of the firearms added to the Government of Canada's banned list may be found at the bottom of this article.
Canadian Shooting Sports Association President Tony Bernardo told the Western Standard the Liberals’ crackdown on firearms is not about public safety, as Trudeau’s government repeatedly insists, but rather a “cynical Pierre Poilievre-baiting exercise.”
“They want to take a ‘high side,’ that's how they would term it, on the firearms debate,” said Bernardo.
“Now, Pierre Poilievre has never made any bones about it, that he is solidly on the side of respecting the rights of firearms owners."
“Gee, what a radical solution, considering they're all law-abiding, and they all have firearms licenses, and there's 2.3 million of them in Canada. He's gonna respect lawful people — wow, who can believe that?"
“This is all about election.”
“This is not about public safety, it never was about public safety.”
Bernardo said though the guns added to the list this week have not been disclosed, in the past the LIberals have selected gun that “look scary” rather than prohibit them for the damage they can do, citing the extremely common SKS rifle and multiple models of .22 handguns.
The .22s are “not mean for the battlefield, as the Liberals have said,” said Bernardo.
“They’re for shotting squirrels. Boy scouts use them.”
“This is a Pierre-baiting exercise. That's what this is. This is all about baiting Pierre. Pierre’s smart enough not to rise to the bait — but the Liberals are dumb enough to think he will.”
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) called for the Trudeau Liberals to “scrap its gun ban” and slammed the policy as tacking on “huge costs to taxpayers.”
“Taxpayers can’t keep paying for this program that keeps getting more expensive,” said CTF Prairie Director Gage Haubrich in an emailed statement to the Western Standard.
“Ottawa has already spent millions on this scheme without making Canadians safer. The feds need to scrap this program because taxpayers can’t afford it.”
CTF points out the Liberals grossly underestimated the cost of the program. In 2019, they said it would cost $200 million. Yet, the Parliamentary Budget Officer has said the cost of buying back only the previously banned guns could inflate to $756 million.
Government documents show that the buyback is now likely to cost almost $2 billion, said CTF in a press release.
“Ottawa’s buyback has already cost taxpayers $67 million since 2020. That cost is likely to rise to $100 million by the end of the year. The government has started collecting firearms from businesses but has yet to collect a single gun from individual firearms owners,” wrote CTF.
The RCMP union, the National Police Federation, says Ottawa’s buyback “diverts extremely important personnel, resources, and funding away from addressing the more immediate and growing threat of criminal use of illegal firearms.”
“The RCMP union says that this program is a waste of money and that’s only more true with the increased costs of buying back more guns,” Haubrich said. “The federal government needs to listen to the police, cut its losses, and scrap the gun ban and buyback,” says the union, according to CTF.
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