Juno News - December 19, 2022


Gun owners are safe for another six weeks


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Bill C-21 is the largest hunting ban in Canadian history, and Canadian hunters are safe for at least six more weeks. At least that's what one conservative MP told me when the House of Commons rose for the Christmas break this week.

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00:00:00.000 Canadian hunters are safe for at least six more weeks. At least that's what one conservative MP
00:00:04.600 told me when the House of Commons rose for Christmas break this week, pausing the Public
00:00:08.660 Safety Committee study on Bill C-21. Now, we have talked about this a couple times. I'm sure you
00:00:13.900 guys are somewhat familiar with the details by now. During clause by clause consideration of Bill
00:00:18.160 C-21, a couple of weeks ago, the Liberals introduced an amendment to ban hundreds more
00:00:22.660 models of semi-automatic shotguns and rifles, including those primarily used by hunters,
00:00:27.360 farmers, and sport shooters. Considering the outcry over the legislation, a Bloc Quebecois MP on the
00:00:32.660 committee put forward a motion on Tuesday, suggesting that the committee hear from more
00:00:36.760 witnesses about the specific amendment. The Bloc Quebecois MP, Christina Michaud, suggested two more
00:00:42.080 meetings to hear from witnesses. But it's safe to say that conservative public safety critic Raquel
00:00:46.440 Dancho was less than impressed by this suggestion. Take listen to her remarks now. What's really
00:00:51.360 frustrating for us as conservatives is this work should have been done by the Liberal government
00:00:55.040 and their vast resources. But now the committee, as you know, Mr. Chair, this is now our fourth week
00:00:59.840 talking about this. We're going to have to go back, sort of flip-flop through this backwards in this 1.00
00:01:04.840 committee process, because they didn't do their homework. And now they're sort of turning it around
00:01:09.600 and saying, well, okay, we'll do it in two meetings. So we have two meetings. We barely scratched the surface
00:01:14.520 of the people that are impacted by this ban. Again, the largest hunting rifle ban in Canadian history here.
00:01:19.600 We barely scratched the surface. For people who don't know, two meetings, as you know, Mr. Chair,
00:01:23.800 is about 12 witnesses. 12 witnesses. 12 witnesses. I don't think that that's nearly enough.
00:01:30.440 So we just feel that any suggestion that two meetings is adequate is, I'm going to say it,
00:01:37.660 I do feel that it's offensive to the people that are going to be impacted by this. It does not give
00:01:41.580 them the dignity of having a seat at the table. Because the House is now risen for Christmas break,
00:01:45.760 the committee won't get back to this amendment for another six weeks. So you guys are safe with
00:01:49.940 your guns for a little while longer, at least.