“There are progressive votes that we need,” said a Liberal source. “It’s going to happen.”
The final quote of the article really says it all.
TheWesternProphet on
Is there any low the LPC and NDP won’t stoop to in order to buy votes?
PP cannot get elected soon enough, I can’t wait for the conservative government to pass legislation in retribution.  Banning tik tok perhaps?  Does anyone have a better suggestion?
CaptainPeppa on
That’s about as scathing of an article on the Liberals from the CBC that I can remember.
No one seems to think this is a good idea, Liberals included but “Its an election year”
factanonverba_n on
Strangely silent from the LPC commenters.
The fact is that four years after announcing these “scary”, “bad”, “evil” “assault style” firearms are unsuitable for use anywhere in society (noting of course that the same announcement allowed indigenous people to use them) and we still have these firearms unconfiscated. Going it to an election year, an election where the LPC will need to sway to willingly uninformed, the quote that should explain everything to anyone and everyone is right there in the article:
**”There are progressive votes that we need,” said a Liberal source. “It’s going to happen.”**
Literally saying the quiet part out loud. That the *only* reason to confiscate these weapons, violating the property rights of the most vetted and safest portion of our population, is all performative theatre for the masses of uninformed and ignorant LPC supporters.
So much for the lofty and vaunted goal of “evidence based policy”
The funny part (sad part?) is that when they lose, they’ll rabidly blame racism, populism, extremism, every “-ism” they can, but will not acknowledge that their party simply (and epically) failed as leaders for a decade, caring more for performance that substance.
Such as with this confiscation.
TheSilentPrince on
**I hate this**. This is the exact opposite direction that I want us to be going. Hopefully people just don’t comply with this, and just “lose their guns in boating accidents” or something similar. Why does no party support us having rights?
The government doesn’t actually care about our safety; it just wants more control over our day-to-day lives, and wants us to be entirely dependent on them and unable to defend ourselves. They’ve been pushing it on kids for decades now, with those BS “*Zero Tolerance*” policies. Don’t defend yourself, just be a victim, even though we won’t help you. I totally side with the Americans on matters of self-defense, no question whatsoever.
TorontoBiker on
> The government is looking at the possibility of working with law enforcement to collect weapons,
> “There are progressive votes that we need,” said a Liberal source. “It’s going to happen.”
Liberals are considering the use of law enforcement to implement their policy designed to divide Canadians.
What could possibly go wrong.
dingobangomango on
Remember folks, this issue was so pressing that they had to ban these firearms immediately, except for the Indigenous people who can still use them for *hunting* almost 4 years later. The evidence they had was so important they had to keep it under Cabinet privilege, and after 4 years they decide to do the buyback during an election year. All while also banning the sale and purchasing of handguns too, gun homicide are still going up.
I think LPC fans should seriously start weighing how egregious policies like this IS extremism.
You have an idea, with no evidence to support it, are willing to waste hundreds of millions if not into the billions of dollars to attack a small minority/political group of people.
The big tent CPC sees this. The SoCons see you as perpetrating the nanny state. The gun owners are tired of always being the punching bag. The people in the middle see this as a giant waste of money for little gain. The politically savvy see this as the biggest challenge to the notion of property rights in this country we have ever seen.
MutaitoSensei on
It’s only controversial to the minority of gun nuts. The rest of us understand these won’t be for proper hunting weapons but for “toys” that have the potential to kill multiple people in a few second effortlessly.
thehuntinggearguy on
Babe! It’s an election year. Time to commit a billion dollars+ on ineffective nonsense on the off-chance it’ll help your base in Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal.
glx89 on
Ya know… as a lifelong Liberal donator and supporter, there are easier ways to shoot themselves in the foot than going after legal gun owners. Talk about a senseless waste of political capital.
AxemanEugene on
They’re not going to go back to the same level of obscurity of the pre-Trudeau days – The NDP has simply become too useless – But we’re probably going to get a PC majority. This is all such a joke.Â
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“There are progressive votes that we need,” said a Liberal source. “It’s going to happen.”
The final quote of the article really says it all.
Is there any low the LPC and NDP won’t stoop to in order to buy votes?
PP cannot get elected soon enough, I can’t wait for the conservative government to pass legislation in retribution.  Banning tik tok perhaps?  Does anyone have a better suggestion?
That’s about as scathing of an article on the Liberals from the CBC that I can remember.
No one seems to think this is a good idea, Liberals included but “Its an election year”
Strangely silent from the LPC commenters.
The fact is that four years after announcing these “scary”, “bad”, “evil” “assault style” firearms are unsuitable for use anywhere in society (noting of course that the same announcement allowed indigenous people to use them) and we still have these firearms unconfiscated. Going it to an election year, an election where the LPC will need to sway to willingly uninformed, the quote that should explain everything to anyone and everyone is right there in the article:
**”There are progressive votes that we need,” said a Liberal source. “It’s going to happen.”**
Literally saying the quiet part out loud. That the *only* reason to confiscate these weapons, violating the property rights of the most vetted and safest portion of our population, is all performative theatre for the masses of uninformed and ignorant LPC supporters.
So much for the lofty and vaunted goal of “evidence based policy”
The funny part (sad part?) is that when they lose, they’ll rabidly blame racism, populism, extremism, every “-ism” they can, but will not acknowledge that their party simply (and epically) failed as leaders for a decade, caring more for performance that substance.
Such as with this confiscation.
**I hate this**. This is the exact opposite direction that I want us to be going. Hopefully people just don’t comply with this, and just “lose their guns in boating accidents” or something similar. Why does no party support us having rights?
The government doesn’t actually care about our safety; it just wants more control over our day-to-day lives, and wants us to be entirely dependent on them and unable to defend ourselves. They’ve been pushing it on kids for decades now, with those BS “*Zero Tolerance*” policies. Don’t defend yourself, just be a victim, even though we won’t help you. I totally side with the Americans on matters of self-defense, no question whatsoever.
> The government is looking at the possibility of working with law enforcement to collect weapons,
> “There are progressive votes that we need,” said a Liberal source. “It’s going to happen.”
Liberals are considering the use of law enforcement to implement their policy designed to divide Canadians.
What could possibly go wrong.
Remember folks, this issue was so pressing that they had to ban these firearms immediately, except for the Indigenous people who can still use them for *hunting* almost 4 years later. The evidence they had was so important they had to keep it under Cabinet privilege, and after 4 years they decide to do the buyback during an election year. All while also banning the sale and purchasing of handguns too, gun homicide are still going up.
I think LPC fans should seriously start weighing how egregious policies like this IS extremism.
You have an idea, with no evidence to support it, are willing to waste hundreds of millions if not into the billions of dollars to attack a small minority/political group of people.
The big tent CPC sees this. The SoCons see you as perpetrating the nanny state. The gun owners are tired of always being the punching bag. The people in the middle see this as a giant waste of money for little gain. The politically savvy see this as the biggest challenge to the notion of property rights in this country we have ever seen.
It’s only controversial to the minority of gun nuts. The rest of us understand these won’t be for proper hunting weapons but for “toys” that have the potential to kill multiple people in a few second effortlessly.
Babe! It’s an election year. Time to commit a billion dollars+ on ineffective nonsense on the off-chance it’ll help your base in Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal.
Ya know… as a lifelong Liberal donator and supporter, there are easier ways to shoot themselves in the foot than going after legal gun owners. Talk about a senseless waste of political capital.
They’re not going to go back to the same level of obscurity of the pre-Trudeau days – The NDP has simply become too useless – But we’re probably going to get a PC majority. This is all such a joke.Â