Toronto police refusing to help with Carney government’s gun buyback, minister says
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/toronto-police-refusing-to-help-with-carney-governments-gun-buyback-minister-says/article_e45e6f80-168c-4e41-a82a-b617290e628a.html
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Imagine Toronto had a street racing problem with unregistered vehicles out of Detroit and the Feds solution was to confiscate every legally purchased and insured sports car in the country for 25% of its market value. Thats the buyback program in a nutshell.
Probably because they’re too busy trying to get a handle on the bigger issue, and that’s illegal guns.
You’re not seeing gangsters running around with clapped out WW2 era rifles.
What a joke this policy is. The police are right to refuse to help.
Police not doing their jobs?
Colour me shocked.
Yes, let’s waste more of our tax dollars on Liberal virtue signalling please…
When the police of the city with some of the worst gun crime are publicly taking a stand against these bans as ineffective, maybe the government should reconsider their stance.
This guy has zero issues bold face lying to everyone
“Anandasangaree told the Star. “We are anticipating fairly decent uptake”
They hit 12% of their target in Cape Breton, nationally this program will likely be under 10%
“The public safety minister also took a shot at a resistant gun lobby, suggesting Ottawa has been reluctant to share details about participants or mechanics because “there is a very strong lobby out there that’s actively trying to dissuade anyone who’s part of the program with a lot of vitriol and a lot of hate that sometimes has made people reflect and even change their positions on the program.”
In reality it’s because they have no idea how to run this mess.
“Anandasangaree told the Star there is no specific goal on the number of weapons the federal government hopes to collect and destroy.”
So they have a goal they just don’t want to share it because they know they will to meet it.
Trump just posted a photo of the world map with America including Canada and Greenland and Venezuela.
Great news! I hope all associations and provinces tell this government to shove their buy-back program. What a complete waste of $. For those without licenses (me included), please review the process on getting and keeping a permit. Canada has one of the best permitting programs in the world.
Second, folks with permits aren’t causing the crime. Illegal guns are causing the gun crime and they’re NOT part of this program. Let’s take the $ for this program and improve our borders… Such an easy win…
The government of this country has forgotten some critical things – people have to be willing to follow you or you ain’t the leader of shit.
Good god I’m a big gun control guy but Jesus Christ they need to read the room on this.
Anytime I’ve bitched about this program in any sub there’s always someone who tells me that Canadians wanted this according to polling. At this point it almost seems unanimous that this program is very unpopular and doomed to fail. Whoever supported this in the past was very ill informed.
Given the constant pressures South of the border, no one is giving up their guns, legal or otherwise right now. Government needs to read the room and realize that there is more of a demand at this point.
I have never been big on guns or the idea that the general population should own a bunch. But after visiting some friends in Switzerland a few years ago, where they have mandatory military service where they all learn basics – as well as basically a gun for every person, and what’s happening down south, I literally think they should be training every Canadian how to use guns and letting them buy one. At least make 3d printing them legal and distribute some of the best models so people have a chance if the worst happens.
Reminder that the minister is representing riding in Scarborough, which means that Toronto Police is his “home police”. He doesn’t even get buy in from his own city’s police force.
Trump and his people must be laughing their asses off at us. Disarming your own citizens while literally under threat of invasion
Look at this very real photograph
https://assets.newsweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Copy-of-32-image-12.png?w=1200&quality=80&webp=1
The liberal party called our economy a vibe-cession, so maybe they consider this a vibe-vasion
Good for them. This program is a total fraud.
Professional money wasters, gaslighters, liars and crooks.
Well did they receive funding to enforce this new program? If they didn’t, then it goes in the low priority backlog, with reason. I feel this is more a political stunt than any enforceable idea. Not specifically a good moment to disarm citizens when they are call to reserve as citizens, at the same time.
I am thinking the police already have their hands full with the crime problems created by the creators of this nonsensical policy! And to think the carney is doubling down on this madness!!!
Laws are for the law abiding.
I would never own a firearm in Canada but I think the buyback program should be scraped. There are canadian trucker protestor types looking for a new reason to hate the liberals and THIS is it. We can’t afford division amongst our population right now admit threats from abroad looking to divide us.
I’m just wondering, is a class action lawsuit against the government a feasible option with this? The whole premise of the firearms ‘confiscation’ program was under false pretense. If it was remotely possible, it would take probably a decade to settle and cost several hundred million, but to prove a point, there is no price. Also, we need to work on getting Provost and Gary booted from parliament. A lobbyist has no role in our government, especially one who has the role of ‘minister of nature’ and is meddling in public safety affairs. Gary is just incompetent and a scapegoat at this point.
Ok, exactly which government body will be helping with the buyback program? It seems like every week another government body is saying ‘Nope, not us!”
Fucking good.
I would like a gun please
good. our gun laws are already pretty intense. you’d think the government might be aware of the law of diminishing returns.
>“In Ontario, people will have the option of dropping it off at their local mobile collection facility,” Anandasangaree told the Star. **“We are anticipating fairly decent uptake,** and we’re also anticipating that we will have the capacity to both recover and to destroy firearms across the GTA but also across Ontario and the vast majority of Canadian provinces and territories.”
Are they seriously expecting “a decent uptake”? When the pilot, which took place in the safest, pro-LPC area, had an abysmal collection rate.
With how much money the government has spent on going after legal guns now since Justin Turdo started this, imagine how’s many illegal gun crimes could have been prosecuted instead. Or school lunches could have been paid for, or maybe started building more hospitals, but no let’s keep making legal licensed, trained owners into criminals, even though they only do like 3% of gun crimes total
With the angry psycho ex-gf to the south perhaps gun buyback isn’t the best idea. Should be arming the public. Not taking guns away.
Good, nobody should comply with this joke. Also note that majority of law enforcement officers are legal gun owners themselves so good luck….