The people of Canada are rising up against liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by refusing to comply with the federal government’s mandatory gun-surrender order.
This from slaynews.com.
The Canadian government has ordered authorities to enforce a mandatory gun buyback program of “assault-style” firearms.
Officials from three of Canada’s provinces have refused to use police resources to perform the order.
National Post reported:
So far this week, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have informed officials with the Canadian federal government that they will not comply with any such scheme.
In May 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced:
[H]is government was enacting regulations to ban the sale, purchase, or use of ‘military-grade assault weapons.’
The decree includes a total of 1,500 models and variants.
Trudeau said:
[T]here would be a two-year amnesty period during which the government will set up a program to provide fair compensation to buy back the guns.
The amnesty period will end on October 20, 2023.
The prime minister acknowledged:
The vast majority of gun owners use them safely, responsibly in accordance with the law, whether it be for work, sport shooting, for collecting or for hunting.
But you don’t need an AR-15 to bring down a deer.
WATCH:
Assault-style firearms designed for military use have no place in Canada. By removing them from our streets, we will limit the devastating effects of gun-related violence and help make our country safer. Learn more about today’s announcement: https://t.co/HiUTrYwSK3 pic.twitter.com/hB6S94EnMt
— CanadianPM (@CanadianPM) May 1, 2020
Obviously, this was Trudeau engaging in a straw-man argument to obscure and confuse. While an AR-15 may not be necessary to shoot a deer, it can prove very effective in exercising one’s God-given right to self-defense.
In a Monday letter to the provincial leader of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Alberta Justice Minister and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro wrote:
We are disturbed by reports that federal civil servants have decided to deploy the RCMP to confiscate firearms under the buyback program.
He added:
Alberta taxpayers pay over $750 million dollars per year to fund the RCMP as our provincial police service.
We expect that those dollars not be wasted to pay for a confiscation program that will not increase public safety.
National Post noted:
While the RCMP is a federal police force it provides contract policing to eight provinces and three territories with only Quebec and Ontario having their own provincial forces.
Note: The federal government of Canada covers 30 percent of the costs of the RCMP and the provinces cover the rest.
According to Global News, Shandro plainly stated:
We will not tolerate taking officers off the street in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearms owners.
Alberta is telling its RCMP to ignore Trudeau's gun ban.
Solicitor General Tyler Shandro says "We will not tolerate taking officers off the street in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearms owners."
Tell Trudeau: https://t.co/TTs0E4GGlP pic.twitter.com/uzgylEcKjq
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) September 26, 2022
In a Tuesday letter to the highest-ranking RCMP in her province, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Corrections, Policing, and Public Safety Christine Tell wrote to say local resources will not be used to collect firearms.
She wrote:
The Government of Saskatchewan does not support and will not [authorize] the use of provincially funded resources for any process that is connected to the federal government’s proposed ‘buyback’ of these firearms.
And she added:
It would seem to be counterintuitive to take our front-line resources from our provincial policing service to carry out a federally mandated administrative program.
Further, in a Wednesday Facebook post, Manitoba Attorney General Kelvin Goertzen quoted from a letter that he wrote to Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, conveying his province’s opposition to the buyback program.
He explained:
We feel many aspects of the federal approach to gun crimes unnecessarily target lawful gun owners while having little impact on criminals, who are unlikely to follow gun regulations in any event.
In Manitoba’s view, any buy-back program cannot further erode precious provincial police resources, already suffering from large vacancy rates, from focusing on investigation of violent crime.
Meanwhile, according to National Post, a spokesperson for British Columbia’s public safety minister said:
[T]heir office is willing to work with the federal government, but enforcing the gun buyback program is not a ‘top priority,’
A huge shout out and a crisp salute to these three provinces for opposing this oppressive federal government directive.
And hopefully the remaining seven provinces and the territories find the same wisdom.
“It just takes a few to stand up to give a backbone to the many to do the same.”
Last winter, patriots who took part in the Canadian Truckers protest inspired the world with their stand against COVID-19 mandates.
Now Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are rising up to defend individual rights and freedom.
God speed to Conservatism.