Juno News - December 14, 2022HEATED： Poilievre slams Trudeau for hunting rifle ban
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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks on his plan to ban assault-style weapons, including hunting rifles, in the House of Commons of Commons. Prime Minister: "My intent with this legislation is to target weapons designed for the battlefield, not ones commonly used for hunting. As I've mentioned, the Minister of Public Safety is taking the time to get this right, and that means consulting with partners to make sure we're not capturing weapons we shouldn't be.
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Well, the Prime Minister sent out his Public Safety Minister today.
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We thought to back down on his hunting rifle ban.
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Instead, he just gave a rambly endorsement of the same policy
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and announced that his rural MPs from across the country,
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including rural Newfoundland, support the ban on hunting rifles.
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And the Prime Minister has tried to deny that he's banning those rifles,
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even though First Nations have said so, his experts have said so.
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So will he stand in the House today and really look us in the eye
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and tell us that there are no hunting rifles on his banned list?
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Mr. Speaker, we made a commitment a number of years ago to Canadians
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to ban assault-style weapons from this country.
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There is no place for guns designed to kill the largest number of people
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And that is why we're moving forward with an amendment that ensures that assault-style weapons
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are banned not just in the past, not just in the present, but into the future.
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We're going to carefully work with hunters and farmers and caucus members
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and all parliamentarians from rural areas to ensure that we get that list right.
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But all Canadians want to see less gun violence in this country.
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He's banning firearms that, in many cases, are not even semi-automatic.
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These are firearms that have to be rechambered every single time.
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They are deliberately created for hunting and sustenance.
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The Assembly of First Nations has unanimously spoken against this ban on hunting rifles,
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as have numerous experts and now members of his own caucus.
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They all agree that his ban does not target weapons that are designed to kill people.
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It targets weapons that are for the legitimate Canadian tradition of hunting.
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So will he announce he's backing down from attacking our hunters today?
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Mr. Speaker, we've heard clear concerns from First Nations, Métis and Inuit partners.
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Our intent with this legislation is to target guns designed for the battlefield,
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As I've mentioned, the Minister of Public Safety is taking the time to get this right,
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and that means consulting with partners to make sure we're not capturing weapons we shouldn't be.
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Now, part of that process is showing up to meet with Indigenous leaders,
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something the Leader of the Official Opposition failed to do just last week
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when he had an opportunity to sit down with AFN Chiefs.
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I have been meeting with First Nations leaders from across the country,
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and they have been unanimous in their desire to protect their millennia-old tradition of hunting.
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That requires, in the modern sense, the use of hunting rifles.
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The Prime Minister's government has tabled 300 pages of banned hunting rifles
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He is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions,
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targeting the legitimate hunting tools of rural people and First Nations.
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Why doesn't he put that money into securing our borders and fighting crime instead?
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The government that the Leader of the Opposition was part of before we took office in 2015
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cut close to a billion dollars from our borders and police services across the country.
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We, on the contrary, have been investing to restore that funding
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even as we move forward close to a billion dollars on keeping our communities safer.
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We also have invested massively in our border protection to ensure, for example,
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that last year we were able to collect double the amount of illegal firearms
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trying to cross our borders as the year before.
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There's no question that his policies are more expensive than our policies,
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Today, violent crime is 32% higher than when he took office.
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That includes a massive increase in gang violence.
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The head of the Toronto Police Force says 82% of the firearms that are used in crime
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in Canada's biggest city come smuggled in from the United States of America.
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They are not brought here by hunters from Cape Breton or rural Alberta.
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So once and for all, will the Prime Minister stop wasting money on hunters
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Mr. Speaker, the last Conservative government, of which their leader was a key part,
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slashed nearly a billion dollars from our police and our borders.
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We've invested nearly a billion dollars to end gun violence
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and keep guns out of the hands of criminals since 2018 alone,
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including another $137 million for the CBSA in the fall economic statement
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We doubled the number of guns interdicted at the border last year
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Again, they're going after the innocent people rather than the real problem.
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Moving on to the heroes that protect our country
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and go to Veterans Affairs to get the services to which they are entitled.
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This government is now racking up an embarrassing and shameful record
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of having recommended medical assistance in dying.
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At least a half a dozen veterans now report that they have been advised
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that medical assistance in dying might be the best solution for them.
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tell us exactly how many veterans have been recommended
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and Veterans Affairs Canada is taking serious measures
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to ensure not only that this never happens again,
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who have been making those recommendations irresponsibly
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and on their own no longer are in a position to make that.
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that we've invested over $10 billion in support for our veterans
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after 10 years of the previous Conservative government
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nickel-and-diming them and using them for photo ops.
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We will support our veterans as we've continued to do
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This is from the Prime Minister who said that veterans are asking for more
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Is this the first Prime Minister who's ever presided
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that recommends that the heroes who served our country
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One soldier, one former soldier, current veteran,
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How many veterans have been given the recommendation
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that they should go to medical assistance in dying?
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and that is why we condemn in the strongest terms
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anyone who has recommended that to our veterans.
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and deserve the utmost quality of care from our governments.
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and nickel and dine them every chance that they could get.
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which is why we're taking so seriously the reports
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that this unacceptable behavior happened within Veterans Affairs.