TheGunBlog.ca — The Liberal Party of Canada will escalate its attacks against government-licensed firearm users if it wins the election underway, according to the party’s campaign wishlist.
Key Points
The Liberal Election 2025 proposals, published April 19, promise to:
- “Continue to implement” mass criminalizations and confiscations targeting licence holders
- Invent a new law prohibiting new firearms unless the RCMP explicitly authorizes them
- “Toughen oversight of firearms licensing”
Anti-Firearm Fantasy
- The Liberals outlined their prohibitionist wishlist without any plan, budget, timeline, or deadline.
- Their lack of specifics suggests they have no idea how to execute their crackdowns after working on them for almost seven years.
- The Liberals referred to the campaign document as a “fully costed plan.”
- Mark Carney, the party leader, promised two weeks ago to “reinvigorate” the failing confiscation effort that was scheduled to be completed three years ago.
Context
- Carney and the Liberals are specifically targeting their attacks against Canada’s 2.4 million men and women with a firearm Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL)
- The campaign document confirms the party and its allies in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the most-hostile political force working to eradicate Canadian gun culture, traditions and heritage.
- Opinion polls aggregated by 338Canada.com project the Liberals will win majority control of the House of Commons in the election ending April 28.
Conservatives As the Only Alternative
- The Conservative Party led by Pierre Poilievre is the only group in parliament that isn’t actively working to criminalize and suppress responsible firearm users.
- Poilievre has promised to stop or repeal several elements of the Liberal attacks.
- Background: ‘I Will Repeal These Laws,’ Poilievre Says of Bill C-21 and Bill C-71
Liberal Wishlist
The Liberal anti-gun wishlist uses deceitful and misleading language to describe their crackdown.
Below is how they phrased their attack plan against lawful firearm users, followed by a translation:
- “Continue to implement an efficient gun buyback program for assault-style firearms.
- Translation: Continue with mass criminalizations ordered in May 2020 targeting hundreds of thousands of licensed owners of rifles and shotguns, with forced confiscation.
- “Legislate a pre-authorization system that ensures that the classification of new firearm models entering the market is determined by the RCMP and not the gun industry.”
- Translation: Invent a law to prohibit new firearms destined for the government-controlled market unless the RCMP explicitly approves them.
- “Toughen oversight of firearms licensing and strengthen the enforcement of yellow and red flag requirements by bolstering the capacity of Provincial Chief Firearms Officers to fulfill their obligations.”
- Translation: Unclear. Possibly more red tape and hurdles to get or renew your PAL.