Bill Blair might subvert Parliament to ban certain guns
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Summary
With just a few weeks to go until the House of Commons breaks for the summer, the federal government is running out of time to put forward any sweeping legislation on anything, certainly that includes the much vaunted plan to reform firearms laws in Canada. With no time left in the legislative session to do anything about it, the only way the government could implement any change would be through what s called an order in council, a measure that comes directly from cabinet subverting the democratic process and subverting parliament.
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with just a couple of weeks to go until the house of commons breaks for the summer which may well
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be the last day the house sits before the election the federal government is running out of time to
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put forward any sweeping legislation on anything certainly that includes the much vaunted plan to
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reform firearms laws in canada the plan that justin trudeau and ralph goodale promised in
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the wake of the danforth aft shooting except with no time left in the legislative session
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to do anything about it the only way the federal government could implement any change
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would be through what's called an order in council which is an order that comes directly from cabinet
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subverting the democratic process and subverting parliament this isn't just theoretical bill blair
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has refused to take it off the table just watch what happened when he was asked point blank by
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evan solomon on ctv's question period so i just want to make sure i got to say you're not ruling out
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an order in council to institute some kind of gun ban some kind of weapon ban over the summer you
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would not rule that out yeah i want to be really clear there is no measure that i think we can rule
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out that that will legitimately contribute to greater safety for our citizens if you can work your way
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through that boilerplate politician answer he said that he will not take anything off the table and makes
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this claim that the liberal gun control plan will somehow be about public safety but it's hard to
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take seriously the idea that any public safety implications will come when it's clear that the
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minister responsible for gun crime reduction and organized crime reduction doesn't even know the
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file and doesn't even know firearms laws in canada take a look at this other aspect of what bill blair
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said in the interview about firearms i've seen the devastating impact that those weapons can have on
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our communities we saw a military style weapon used at the mosque in in quebec we also saw it
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slaughtering you know children in sandy hook they've been used to kill police officers in in in the
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line of duty those those weapons i think represent an unacceptable risk to canadians yeah it's very
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subtle and if you're not a sport shooter or gun owner yourself you might have missed it but you hear
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this often from the left citing military weapons military style weapons the fact is the military guns the
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fully automatic guns all of these things are prohibited in canada the guns to which bill blair and most gun
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control advocates are referring are actually civilian modifications of guns things like the ar-15 or
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in the case of the quebec city mosque shooter a czech arms variant again specifically designed for the
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civilian market these firearms do not have the capability to shoot in fully automatic fashion
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they've specifically been modified to meet the requirements for civilian guns and more importantly gun
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owners in canada myself included in that category have gone through a huge rigmarole daily background
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checks all to prove to the government that we are in fact going to follow the law and not pose a threat
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to anyone but when the government starts making these flawed or downright incorrect classifications of guns
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military this military that what they're actually doing is trying to pit canadians who don't know about
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firearms against the millions of gun owners that exist in canada and the millions of firearms that
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exist legally in canada and cause no issues or harm to anyone in the country when bill blair is saying
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that he's considering an order in council what he's actually saying is that he knows that the democratic will
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is not there for the sweeping reforms that the liberals want to do so they're going to ram them through
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the back door now remember this is coming from a representative of the same government that mocked tony
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clement for sharing just a couple of weeks ago that he had heard the government had planned to subvert
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parliament to put gun control in and now bill blair himself seems to be affirming at least that that's
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a possibility if not a certainty gun crime is not going to be solved by going after the people that are not
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causing the crimes that are not committing crimes this should be known to bill blair a police officer for 40
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years but in fact he's just a politician first and a police officer second for true north i'm andrew lutton