Gun control “was one of the key planks in our election campaign,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told a news briefing on Thursday. “We received a strong mandate from Canadians to act on gun control.”
Um, maybe I should Google the results of the 2019 federal election again just to be sure but, if memory serves me, the Liberals only won a minority in that vote.
That means the Trudeau government doesn’t have a “strong mandate from Canadians” to do anything.
Especially not confiscate tens of millions of dollars of private property with the stroke of a pen. Without going to Parliament. In the middle of a public-health emergency.
The Trudeauites have decided to appease their base (which doesn’t know Thing One about gun violence), by pandering to fears about mass shootings, at a time when the public is fixated on the pandemic and Parliament is not sitting in a fashion that could hold the government to account.
Sounds a tad conniving to me. And undemocratic, too.
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