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TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government said it’s unable to provide the cost, design or plan for its mass gun-confiscation fantasy after six years of work and $70 million spent on a crackdown that could waste billions.
Shelby Kramp-Neuman, a member of parliament with the Conservative Party, in May asked the Liberal Party-led administration 12 questions including:
- How much the crackdown will cost
- What date it will begin
- How it will be executed
- What proof exists to justify the forced seizures
- Why the Liberals ordered the confiscation by decree in May 2020 instead of passing through parliament
The Department of Public Safety, which is managing the attack against government-licensed firearm owners, responded with seven paragraphs of background and unrelated statistics.
Not Able to Provide Answers
“At this time, the Government is not able to provide additional answers as the questions being posed touch upon issues of Program design that are still being developed,” the Department of Public Safety concluded.
The Ottawa-based department submitted its response to Kramp-Neuman in the House of Commons on September 16.
The PDF of the response is below.
Why It Matters
- The response confirms the Liberals have no idea how to execute their crackdown and overcome massive grassroots and institutional opposition plus legislative and logistical obstacles.
- They’ve designed it to fail by pushing their confiscation deadline until 30 October 2025, after the next election. Gun owners intend to keep our gear and expect an incoming Conservative administration will cancel the Liberal attack.
- The confiscation fantasy already stands as a milestone of authoritarianism, financial waste, and dangerous policy that undermines trust and safety.
$70 Million in Expenses Already
Separately, in a response to questions from Senator Don Plett, also a Conservative, the government said it has spent $69.6 million on the confiscation effort.
- Department of Public Safety: $56.1 million
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police: $13.4 million
Plett published the information on his personal account on the X platform on September 17.
Context
- The Liberals ordered their criminalization of hundreds of thousands of government licensed firearm owners and businesses on 01 May 2020.
- They began studying the idea of the crackdown in August 2018.
- An internal Department of Justice memo from late 2019 budgeted about $2 billion for the attacks.