The multi billion dollar project for gun buy back could have been used for a public housing fund or a public grocer fund.
Literally anything else, I don’t think i’ve seen such a failure of a federal program then the gun buy back system. It’s paying a bunch of federal workers to do nothing.
Since provinces don’t want it, and won’t help or partake. And as of today theres been only a double dozen canadians handing in their guns.
Literal waste of resources for moral grandstanding instead of fixing the issue of crime.
NSAscanner on
I bet they will back off of this eventually. Maybe after some bluster. They’re only doing it at all because Quebec asked for it. Once the pushback gets loud enough it becomes more beneficial to back off and things are definitely trending in that direction
MetricsFBRD on
Just look at the map on https://whatsyourreceipt.ca/en. It shows something important. Quebec is the only province actually signing up for this program. Most provinces have told the federal government to go away. They refused to be part of the system. This is going to be a bureaucratic nightmare.
esveda on
If you need concrete proof of how stubborn and how liberals don’t listen or want to work with anyone other than their own echo chamber look no further than how they have managed this. How can anyone say they listen or are willing to compromise with a straight face when there is glaring evidence like this to the contrary?
Old-Show9198 on
One purpose- disarm the population
It’s so obvious and then it’s scary because why would they? They must have plans because these are a non issue.
SludgeFilter on
What central authority?Â
Tech_By_Trade on
The price of Quebec votes.
SuburbanValues on
The guns will still be illegal after a certain date. Residents of all these places will just have a harder time getting any money for them.
Johnny-Unitas on
It’s ridiculous that this is still moving forward. Calling this anything but a confiscation to buy votes is a lie.
O00O0O00 on
Scrap it. It’s never been more obvious this has to stop. This isn’t smart.
ElijahSavos on
Doesn’t make sense to take guns away in this geopolitical climate with having less than rational neighbour down South.
Provide some additional training, prep some civil defence reserves just in case and as a deterrent to increase the costs of invasion upfront to make it less likely.
I support Carney, but this gun buyback just doesn’t align with reality.
antinumerology on
Just stop with the gun nonsense. No one cares. It does nothing. Argggg
Lumindan on
It’s baffling to me that multiple people sat down and went “yeah this is a great use of 750 million dollars” after multiple failures and extensions.
It’s so fiscally irresponsible it’s not even funny. I guess that’s the cost to buy votes in Quebec.
Who cares if you destroy hundreds of local businesses, waste millions and thousands of man hours and do absolutely nothing for public safety.
For anyone who’s gonna go “well I don’t own a gun on the list” or “I don’t care about this single issue”, I’d just like to remind you that the long gun registry bloated from 2 million to 2 billion, this program is significantly more complex and frankly impossible to execute given the lack of support and each and every Canadian is paying for it (regardless of how you feel about firearms ownership).
Funny enough, despite the liberals effort to make firearms ownership a partisan issue,it seems like I’ve seen this program unite basically everyone across the political spectrum in Canada calling it stupid.
So here’s the real question, when is Carney going to drop it and how hard is he going to scapegoat the blame onto Gary (a clearly willing puppet)?
ky212121 on
At this point, you’d be a fool to give up your firearms. It’s just more taxpayers money down the drain. I wonder when they will get it!?
jaraxel_arabani on
BC of course still going duuuuh fully support duuuuh
1baby2cats on
Come on Mr. Pragmatist, be pragmatic!
0110110111 on
Carney’s a smart guy and has to be aware the program is a loser but to keep his left flank happy he won’t just kill it, he’ll let it wither and die.
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It’s time to scrap the bans.
The multi billion dollar project for gun buy back could have been used for a public housing fund or a public grocer fund.
Literally anything else, I don’t think i’ve seen such a failure of a federal program then the gun buy back system. It’s paying a bunch of federal workers to do nothing.
Since provinces don’t want it, and won’t help or partake. And as of today theres been only a double dozen canadians handing in their guns.
Literal waste of resources for moral grandstanding instead of fixing the issue of crime.
I bet they will back off of this eventually. Maybe after some bluster. They’re only doing it at all because Quebec asked for it. Once the pushback gets loud enough it becomes more beneficial to back off and things are definitely trending in that direction
Just look at the map on https://whatsyourreceipt.ca/en. It shows something important. Quebec is the only province actually signing up for this program. Most provinces have told the federal government to go away. They refused to be part of the system. This is going to be a bureaucratic nightmare.
If you need concrete proof of how stubborn and how liberals don’t listen or want to work with anyone other than their own echo chamber look no further than how they have managed this. How can anyone say they listen or are willing to compromise with a straight face when there is glaring evidence like this to the contrary?
One purpose- disarm the population
It’s so obvious and then it’s scary because why would they? They must have plans because these are a non issue.
What central authority?Â
The price of Quebec votes.
The guns will still be illegal after a certain date. Residents of all these places will just have a harder time getting any money for them.
It’s ridiculous that this is still moving forward. Calling this anything but a confiscation to buy votes is a lie.
Scrap it. It’s never been more obvious this has to stop. This isn’t smart.
Doesn’t make sense to take guns away in this geopolitical climate with having less than rational neighbour down South.
Provide some additional training, prep some civil defence reserves just in case and as a deterrent to increase the costs of invasion upfront to make it less likely.
I support Carney, but this gun buyback just doesn’t align with reality.
Just stop with the gun nonsense. No one cares. It does nothing. Argggg
It’s baffling to me that multiple people sat down and went “yeah this is a great use of 750 million dollars” after multiple failures and extensions.
It’s so fiscally irresponsible it’s not even funny. I guess that’s the cost to buy votes in Quebec.
Who cares if you destroy hundreds of local businesses, waste millions and thousands of man hours and do absolutely nothing for public safety.
For anyone who’s gonna go “well I don’t own a gun on the list” or “I don’t care about this single issue”, I’d just like to remind you that the long gun registry bloated from 2 million to 2 billion, this program is significantly more complex and frankly impossible to execute given the lack of support and each and every Canadian is paying for it (regardless of how you feel about firearms ownership).
Funny enough, despite the liberals effort to make firearms ownership a partisan issue,it seems like I’ve seen this program unite basically everyone across the political spectrum in Canada calling it stupid.
So here’s the real question, when is Carney going to drop it and how hard is he going to scapegoat the blame onto Gary (a clearly willing puppet)?
At this point, you’d be a fool to give up your firearms. It’s just more taxpayers money down the drain. I wonder when they will get it!?
BC of course still going duuuuh fully support duuuuh
Come on Mr. Pragmatist, be pragmatic!
Carney’s a smart guy and has to be aware the program is a loser but to keep his left flank happy he won’t just kill it, he’ll let it wither and die.