I am struggling to understand how a program like this could take over 4 years to launch. I would appreciate further info from anyone with more detail on this.
green_tory on
Imagine if those funds had instead been spent on anti-IPV and anti-gang efforts.
> In 2021, the parliamentary budget officer estimated that it could cost the government $756 million to buy back every gun at fair market value.
Roughly a billion dollars we could otherwise put towards the problems for which gun violence is merely a symptom.
shimszy on
Honestly really annoying since this is an example of the LPC importing American style problems that don’t exist here. Still nothing like the blunder of buying the pipeline.
Somehow I don’t totally hate Trudeau though – despite all the missteps of the past several years.
t1m3kn1ght on
I’m really tempted to see if a budget breakdown for this expense is available via FOI. A chunk of that for sure is consultant fees per the article but I find it incredible that over 50 million is in costs for a program that doesn’t even exist that targets the wrong end of the gun crime equation.
dingobangomango on
So much for the program only costing a few hundred million at the most.
Between the wasteful use of money this would be, to the government hiding behind cabinet confidence/national security to hide supporting evidence, and accidentally turning tens of thousands of gun owners into criminals because they invented regulatory terms out of thin air… this has been such a disaster.
I’m convinced anyone who still thinks this is a good idea is probably rooted so much in anti-American partisanship that they would find such a poisonous can of worms palatable.
WeightImaginary2632 on
Going after legal gunowners isn’t going to work to stem the tide of Firearm related crime. It’s illegal guns. Statscan says: “Few accused in firearms-related homicides had a valid firearms licence” as well as “The Firearms used in homicides were rarely legal firearms used by their legal owners who were in good standing”. Link [here](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2024001/article/00001-eng.htm) to where I am pulling that information from. I couldn’t find a report for 2023, but I am going to assume it will be more or less the same.
If they want to stem the tide they need to increase funding to border control, plain and simple. Whether it be more personnel to patrol the border, cameras, drones, better equipment to scan vehicles for weapons, etc etc. Going after legal gunowners just doesn’t make sense when you look at the data.
Radix838 on
How is this even possible? How you can possibly spend $67 million on a project to buy things and not buy anything?
Aren’t there massive red flags waving of corruption and embezzlement here?
SterlingAdmiral on
It’d be a shame if they put effort into making the country a better place for their constituents rather than focusing on winning elections. 4 years down the line and we’re still wasting time and money on this performative madness.
The_Behooveinator on
>>The firearm buyback program was announced in May 2020 following Canada’s worst mass shooting, which left 22 people dead in Nova Scotia that April.
In which all of the guns used were obtained illegally and this program would not have prevented. Yet the Liberals were practically tripping over themselves to push their ideological agenda on the backs of murdered Canadians.
Absolutely appalling
jonlmbs on
Citizens need to demand better for our tax dollars. Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not the blatant waste and bureaucracy is unacceptable.
GenauZulu on
I love Populist measures pushed by a group of liberal sycophants out of Montreal, to buy back legally purchased firearms under a confiscation scheme, with our our tax dollars, from a government whose motto is “Over budget and under delivered”
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I am struggling to understand how a program like this could take over 4 years to launch. I would appreciate further info from anyone with more detail on this.
Imagine if those funds had instead been spent on anti-IPV and anti-gang efforts.
> In 2021, the parliamentary budget officer estimated that it could cost the government $756 million to buy back every gun at fair market value.
Roughly a billion dollars we could otherwise put towards the problems for which gun violence is merely a symptom.
Honestly really annoying since this is an example of the LPC importing American style problems that don’t exist here. Still nothing like the blunder of buying the pipeline.
Somehow I don’t totally hate Trudeau though – despite all the missteps of the past several years.
I’m really tempted to see if a budget breakdown for this expense is available via FOI. A chunk of that for sure is consultant fees per the article but I find it incredible that over 50 million is in costs for a program that doesn’t even exist that targets the wrong end of the gun crime equation.
So much for the program only costing a few hundred million at the most.
Between the wasteful use of money this would be, to the government hiding behind cabinet confidence/national security to hide supporting evidence, and accidentally turning tens of thousands of gun owners into criminals because they invented regulatory terms out of thin air… this has been such a disaster.
I’m convinced anyone who still thinks this is a good idea is probably rooted so much in anti-American partisanship that they would find such a poisonous can of worms palatable.
Going after legal gunowners isn’t going to work to stem the tide of Firearm related crime. It’s illegal guns. Statscan says: “Few accused in firearms-related homicides had a valid firearms licence” as well as “The Firearms used in homicides were rarely legal firearms used by their legal owners who were in good standing”. Link [here](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2024001/article/00001-eng.htm) to where I am pulling that information from. I couldn’t find a report for 2023, but I am going to assume it will be more or less the same.
If they want to stem the tide they need to increase funding to border control, plain and simple. Whether it be more personnel to patrol the border, cameras, drones, better equipment to scan vehicles for weapons, etc etc. Going after legal gunowners just doesn’t make sense when you look at the data.
How is this even possible? How you can possibly spend $67 million on a project to buy things and not buy anything?
Aren’t there massive red flags waving of corruption and embezzlement here?
It’d be a shame if they put effort into making the country a better place for their constituents rather than focusing on winning elections. 4 years down the line and we’re still wasting time and money on this performative madness.
>>The firearm buyback program was announced in May 2020 following Canada’s worst mass shooting, which left 22 people dead in Nova Scotia that April.
In which all of the guns used were obtained illegally and this program would not have prevented. Yet the Liberals were practically tripping over themselves to push their ideological agenda on the backs of murdered Canadians.
Absolutely appalling
Citizens need to demand better for our tax dollars. Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not the blatant waste and bureaucracy is unacceptable.
I love Populist measures pushed by a group of liberal sycophants out of Montreal, to buy back legally purchased firearms under a confiscation scheme, with our our tax dollars, from a government whose motto is “Over budget and under delivered”
Another brilliant Canadian heritage moment.