This Week
- All Week: House of Commons is on break until 24 March 2025.
Coming Soon
- Liberals said in December 2024 they will expand criminalizations of government-licensed firearm users and businesses:
- By End February: Prohibition of new models of rifle in February “at the latest.”
- In March: Prohibitions on certain ammo mags in March.
- Related: Liberals May Expand Their Attacks on Gun Owners as Planned During Prorogued Parliament
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Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada Advised on Liberal Confiscation Effort for Its ‘Complexity, High-Profile Nature, and Potential Safety Risks’
Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, ATIP A-2024-00029, via Investigative Journalism Foundation. Document dated July 2024
Note: GA = Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s Government Advisory Directorate. PIA = Privacy Impact Assessment
- “While GA does not usually review draft PIAs, we agreed to provide high-level advice on an exceptional basis due to the complexity, high-profile nature, and potential safety risks associated with the program.”
- Liberals didn’t begin working on the Privacy Impact Assessment until April 2022, their initial deadline for completing their confiscations.
- As late as July 2024, Liberals were still working on their PIA for the confiscations targeting businesses, and didn’t have any timing on the PIA for the confiscations targeting individuals.
Why It Matters
- The Liberal confiscations unleashed in May 2020 targeting honest Canadians are a major topic of study for analysts of policy and governance failures in advanced democracies.
- TheGunBlog.ca tracks every publicly available document on the crackdown.
- This has helped us provide subscribers with informed and accurate analyses and forecasts.
LeBlanc Talking Points for SECU Say Firearm Confiscations ‘Extremely Complex’
“The Firearms Compensation (or Buyback) Program is extremely complex and includes the collection, transportation, and destruction of highly regulated physical assets located across Canada.”
Source: ATIP 2024-00040 from Department of Public Safety
Government Contracts & Grants
Source: CanadaBuys.ca, Proactive Disclosure
Other Gun Media
CSSA: RCMP Tells More Gun Owners Their Registration Certificates Are ‘Expired’ Vs. ‘Nullified’
- Canadian Shooting Sports Association
- 14 February 2025
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