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TheGunBlog.ca — Canada’s Liberal Party-led administration said today it plans to spend almost $600 million over three years on its failing firearm confiscations, suggesting it has abandoned efforts to complete the forced seizures by October 2025.
The Liberals, who have already wasted about $100 million on their attacks against government-licensed firearm owners and businesses, shared their newest spending plans this evening in their 2024 Fall Economic Statement.
It’s the first time they’ve publicly given a cost estimate for their crackdown since unleashing it in May 2020.
Liberals + RCMP Attacks to Spend $597.9 Million
The Liberals said in the statement:
“The 2024 Fall Economic Statement proposes to provide $597.9 million over three years, starting in 2024-25, to Public Safety Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to safely remove prohibited firearms from communities and fairly compensate assault-style firearms owners.”
- The Liberals use the phrases “assault weapons” and “assault-style firearms” to refer to rifles and shotguns they dislike.
- They named their confiscation fantasy: “Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program.”
- Initially, they had named it “Firearms Buyback Program” when they ordered their mass criminalizations in May 2020.
Deadline Ditched?
- The page on the firearm confiscations in today’s economic statement doesn’t mention the current official deadline of 30 October 2025.
- The Liberals have delayed their confiscation effort twice already as they struggle to execute their attacks against honest citizens.
- Opinion polls show the Liberals will be out of office in next year’s election before the October deadline, almost guaranteeing their confiscation fantasy will fail. The probable incoming Conservative Party-led government has pledged to reverse the bans.