LAWTON: Justin Trudeau's assault on Canadian gun owners
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Summary
Justin Trudeau's assault on Canadian gun ownership, and by extension on gun ownership rights in Canada, is a big issue that has come to a bit of a climax in the past week with different stories that ultimately are all part of the same story broadly which is that Justin Trudeau is hell bent on eliminating gun ownership in Canada.
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Good afternoon Canada welcome to another true north report my name is Andrew
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Lawton fellow with true north here for another update I didn't actually get the
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chance to go live last week because I was down with a cold and I could barely
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talk for five minutes let alone you know 35 minutes so I still have a bit of a
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cold now so I'm just gonna give you fair warning that if I start like hacking up
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a lung in the middle of it it's not that the government has tried to silence me
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and they may well be that the government has tried to silence me but I'm
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prepared to at least this week if I suddenly lose the ability to speak to
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blame it on the lingering effects of a cold that as I talk about it right now
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I might need to cough so in any case thank you very much for in advance your
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patience I'm wanting to talk about a big issue that has actually come to a bit of
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a climax in the past week with different stories that ultimately are all part of
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the same story broadly which is Justin Trudeau's assault on Canadian gun
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ownership and by extension on Canadian gun owners and this is a big issue it's
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not just Justin Trudeau it's Justin Trudeau Ralph Goodale Bill Blair this
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chimera of sorts this three-headed monster that is hell-bent on eliminating gun
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ownership rights in Canada and the reason I say that with a bit of trepidation is
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because in Canada we don't really have the right to gun ownership at all and
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this is something that when I say gun ownership in Canada is a privilege and
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not a right I'm not seeding left-wing logic here I'm actually acknowledging the
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law as it stands right now everyone in Canada is legally barred from owning
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firearms unless you have a permit saying otherwise a possession and acquisition
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license or a restricted possession and acquisition license now I have one of
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those millions of other Canadians do but the fact is that that license is a permit
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to break the law essentially it's a permit to do what otherwise the law says you
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can't which is own transport possess a firearm and the reason this is so
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important is because that status quo means that if you were to eliminate all gun laws in
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Canada guns would be banned if you were to eliminate all of the regulations rather
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that exist around gun ownership I should be more precise in my language there gun
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ownership would be banned so as it stands the Conservatives have succeeded in
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putting when Harper was in power a few different steps in that eased gun ownership it
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didn't break down the bulk of gun control but it broke down some of the things that were really
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needless impediments to what gun owners are doing with their firearms without issue on a regular basis
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and the big thing that happened here is the Liberals completely fear-mongered on it when Justin Trudeau was
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standing up and fighting back against some of the Harper era reforms he was blatantly lying or
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alternatively had no idea what he was talking about when it came to the gun laws in Canada for example
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one of the changes that Harper put into effect was taking this paper authorization to transport that
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you need to bring your gun from home to a gun range and back and saying we're going to take this att as
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it's called and make it a part of the license instead of being a separate piece of paper it'll
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be a part of your firearms license because the eligibility criteria are the same Justin Trudeau
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said that would mean that anyone could just take a gun and go and shoot up a mall without issue
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didn't actually need to be true for him to say that and fear-monger about guns and the problem with
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firearms laws in Canada is that they're only really understood by people who own firearms in Canada
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so when the Liberals say something about gun ownership it's a minority of people in Canada
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that know that is not true or know that that's misrepresenting the truth which makes it very
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difficult to have an honest discussion about it because the vast majority of people in this country
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are not gun owners and as such do not understand what it is that's being legislated and what it is
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that's being discussed and this is why it makes it such an important issue because when I say minority
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rights I'm not talking about the identity politics minority rights we hear about from the Liberals but
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the rights that are afforded to a group that is statistically a minority and gun owners in Canada
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are a statistical minority I'm not making a judgment call I'm not talking about this whole diversity
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as our strength nonsense so gun owners are a minority so anything that is about the rights of gun owners
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or the privileges afforded to gun owners is by its nature dealing with a minority of the population in
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Canada which is why the gun lobby needs to be loud it's why the gun lobby needs to speak up and it's
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why the gun lobby needs to be heard even if the Liberals are hell-bent on eroding the remaining
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privileges and rights that have been given to gun owners and again I say this I'm completely biased in this
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I am a gun owner so I have skin in the game on these issues about which I'm speaking right now
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but I want to go over a couple of the big changes because the reason this is so important is because
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C-71 which is the massive gun reform bill that the Liberals just passed into law last week was supposed to
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be the Liberals answer to the Harper easement of gun laws that was what C-71 was supposed to be it was
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supposed to be about all the things the Liberals were going to do to roll back gun rights and it was
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this sweeping massive bill that was put into effect about a year and two months ago or sorry introduced
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into parliament a year and two months ago now just this past week C-71 passed in the senate and the
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senate was really where gun advocates were focusing all their efforts because the senate where's where the
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chamber that we're told this uh sober second thought takes place Canadian gun owners hoped would be
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the place that you could put some common sense into this but what ended up happening and perhaps
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unsurprising is the independent senators group which is basically the group of senators who were all
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appointed by Liberals but call themselves independent all voted as a bloc to pass C-71 not just to pass the
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government gun reform bill but to pass it and to kibosh amendments put forward by conservative senator Don
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pletsch so they basically rolled back any of the little things that were done to try to improve
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it and make it more effective meaning the independent senators proved that they are not independent at
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all but they're entirely dependent on liberal rationale and liberal vote whipping but i want to go over what
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some of the changes were that were in C-71 because i i want to stress here that this is not a bill that does
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anything to improve public safety despite what the gun control activists are saying that this is a long
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overdue bill and it doesn't go far enough but it's a good step it actually doesn't do anything as far as
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public safety is concerned nor does it do anything to keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't
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have them so one of the big things that i really take issue with when you apply for a possession and
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acquisition license in canada or a restricted possession and acquisition license you have to go
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through a background check you also have to go through a questionnaire that asks you about things
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like bankruptcy job loss divorce and mental health history and specifically it looks at a relevant period
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of within the last five years on on most of those things not all but on most of them it's looking at
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your life in the last five years for example i've been very open and candid in my life i've dealt with
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mental health issues when i applied for my gun license it was within the last five years that i
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had had those issues so i had to be transparent about it and go to police and say yes this is what
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happened here's a letter of explanation now in my case it didn't disqualify me from having a gun license
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what it meant is that they did extra scrutiny they wanted to interview family members of mine they
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wanted to do their due diligence and i say the process worked that the process worked because
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the police and the chief firearms office made an adjudication of my situation and said yes
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he's not a menace to canadian society hold your jokes back so now what they're doing is trying to
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not doing they're succeeding in actually making it so that instead of looking at the last five years of
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your life the background check and this scrutiny will go to the entirety of your life now i want to
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to make a point here about why this matters if you're a 65 year old who's applying for a gun license
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your life when you were 18 when you were 22 is now going to be part of it so we're looking at
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screening that will now go back 40 plus years 40 plus years and we're not just talking about you know if
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you had a violent uh murder conviction 40 years ago we're talking about things in your life personal
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details in your life that have no bearing whatsoever on where you are now and on firearms ownership now
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and all of a sudden we've given the government license to take that all into consideration here
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now this doesn't mean that things that come up will be automatic disqualifiers but it means that now
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government databases have much more of your information at hand and more importantly there
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are many more criteria that can be used to go after gun ownership and again we go back to the
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fundamental axiom here which is that the law does not view gun ownership as a right therefore you do
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not have a right to complain about all this you can't say well hang on this violates my rights because
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you don't have any when you are asking for a gun or license to own a gun in canada you are already
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saying to the government i'm surrendering my rights and one of the key examples of this
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is that the chief firearms office or local police departments can right now without a warrant come
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into my home and do an inspection to make sure that i'm following the storage laws that's one of the
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things you agree to by owning guns in canada another example the chief firearms office is doing daily
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background checks to make sure that my situation in the eyes of the law has not changed this is not
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something that is done on regular non-gun owning citizens in canada but when you are a gun owner
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this is all part and parcel of what the state can do because you've signed these rights away
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now i want to make something very clear here i'm i'm not doing this to say oh woe is me gun owners are
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so hard done by what i'm doing is is stressing how stringent and strict the regulations already
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are about gun ownership to illustrate why it's so ridiculous to put more barriers and more impediments
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and more obstacles for these people knowing that they're not the ones causing the problems
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toronto last year had a record-breaking year for gun homicide it outpaced what happened in 2008 which
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was called the year of the gun the culprits of these were not the people like me that are subject
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to warrantless searches that have had the vetting by the rcmp that have the daily background checks
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we are not the problem excuse me that's what i was talking about at the beginning apologize i know
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it sounds terrible so this is one of the big things that c71 does your entire life history is now
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subject to scrutiny when you're applying for a license beyond the five years now remember i have not
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heard of a single case in canada and i'm saying this point blank i've not heard of a single case in
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canada where someone's history who was a law-abiding gun owner prior to five years would have prevented
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something from happening i've not known of anyone where a law-abiding gun owner was given a gun license
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but if the permit period that was under scrutiny had been extended to seven years 10 years 20 years
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they wouldn't have been granted one making this an effort that only seeks to detract from rights
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rather than enhance public safety one of the other issues is the reversal of the authorization of
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transport restrictions that stephen harper eased meaning the automatic att the thing that says if you
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have a restricted gun it's licensed it's registered you can just with your license alone drive to the
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gunsmith or to the gun range or wherever the case may be the liberals are changing that so if i have
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let's say a mechanical issue with my firearm and i need to take it to the gunsmith i need to go to the
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government to effectively get permission for it i need a piece of paper that says you are hereby
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authorized we've given you permission to do this but now again you're talking about bureaucracy which
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comes with a price tag to do something that i am lawfully entitled to do when again there has never
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been a mass murder or a homicide in canada that used a firearm where a criminal has used an att
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it's a piece of paper if i want to take my gun go somewhere and commit a crime i'm not going to log
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my flight plan if you will with the rcmp so we're talking about a make work project all part of c71 which
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the independent senators decided to give a rubber stamp instead of putting a check and balance in
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place to say okay this doesn't make sense this doesn't enhance or impact public safety this is
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just liberal hackery so these are a couple of the key issues here now now these are not insignificant
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pieces of legislation they're not they're very relevant they're very very uh relevant for gun owners
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because these are bureaucratic but the reason i think this is so important is because the liberals
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are not interested in saying this is what we think a gun ownership regime in canada is supposed to look
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like this is a very important point here the liberals don't have their vision of you know we don't like
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this harper thing uh you know we want gun ownership to look like this and and whatever this is they
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don't have that model no their interest is in rolling back access as much as they can politically
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until it's going to cost them and then they they stop they're interested in gaining ground
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not in actually creating a vision for this thing that in canada and not that i would agree with that
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vision but at least we'd see the end point and if the liberals were in good faith saying look uh you know
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the the licensing permit that's all fine uh we've got some issues with the classification system
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okay maybe we disagree but we have that discussion or if they say well you know the authorization to
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transport issue this is a sticking point for us no they're actually trying to do as much as they can and
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and i have proof of this because when c71 was passed this was a broad bill this was a very broad bill
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they put a lot of things in it and this was their their massive gun reform package and then what
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happened the danforth avenue shooting the danforth out shooting happened after c71 was introduced and
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already working its way through the parliamentary process and the reason that's important is because c71
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would have done a gun ban if the liberals had been interested in doing a gun ban it would have
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restricted handguns if the liberals were interested in restricting handguns it would have done all
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of this if the liberals wanted to and planned to do it but it didn't until the danforth out shooting
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gave the liberals political cover that was what happened it gave them political cover so they could
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start putting all of these things in place that they've always wanted to but never had the political willpower to do
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and this is why canadian gun owners should be very concerned right now because all bets are off they're
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able to do pretty much anything they want because there's a backdrop of gun violence stories between
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what happened on danforth and what happened in christchurch again apologies and the christchurch shooting
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again nothing to do with canada nothing to do with canadian gun laws nothing to do with a canadian story
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but ralph goodale says point blank that may factor into the decisions that are being made
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by the government in canada and i did a video i think it was last week or two weeks ago where i played
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a clip from bill blair talking with evan solomon on ctv and bill blair said very candidly he's not taking
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anything off the table specifically in reference to whether he would use an order in council which is a cabinet
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directive that does not go through parliament that is not voted on whether he would use an order in
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council to ban certain types of firearms we still know that the government is mauling a handgun ban
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and there's also risk that government is going to do a ban on what's called the ar-15 now i want to talk
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about the ar-15 for a couple of moments here because it's one of the most misunderstood and i would say
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falsely maligned guns that exist in canada you know the reason i say this is tremendously significant
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here is because the ar-15 if i were to ask you now don't chime in if you're a gun owner but if i were
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to ask you as a non-gunner what what does the ar stand for what does the ar stand for an ar-15 most
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people think it means assault rifle it doesn't it means armalite rifle which is a type of which
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it's a manufacturing style and the ar-15 is not one gun it's a platform of gun there are many
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different ar-15s that exist that are made by different manufacturers from colt to smith and
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wesson to naranco you can get an ar-15 style gun and it's a very popular style of gun because they look
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cool they're fun to shoot they're lightweight and they're very versatile so people who are handy like
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them because they can upgrade them you can swap out pieces you can actually get your hands dirty
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by dismantling them and upgrading them and growing them an ar-15 has the same rate of fire
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and the same round of ammunition that it fires as many non-restricted guns uh guns that do not
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require the special license that an ar-15 requires like a mini 14 for example and you can actually make
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a mini 14 look almost identical to an ar-15 they fire the same round of ammunition the same distance
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they're both just as concealable or non-concealable one's non-restricted and one's restricted and the
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reason this is relevant is because the ar-15 has become the focal point of gun grabbers for no reason
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other than it's been used in mass shootings the reason it's used in mass shootings is not because
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it's a more violent gun than other types of guns the reason it's been used in mass shootings is because
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it's popular it would be no different than saying that honda civics are used in more car crashes
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than maseratis well because the honda civics a more popular car you're going to see it in more
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incidents just as a matter of statistics but let me tell you ar-15s right now in canada are flying off
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of store shelves ar-15s are flying off of shells companies cannot keep them in stock because gun owners
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are terrified and i would say justifiably so that there's a change that's going to come and make
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these prohibited meaning that you'll only be able to have one if you have it before the prohibition
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goes into effect and by the way i'm in this group of people that bought one last week just because i
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want to make sure that if this gets banned i am able to keep it it's a big gamble a lot of canadians
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are making this gamble because they don't trust bill blair to govern the firearms regime in canada
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with actual sense they do not trust the government and nor should they no one should trust the
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government right now because the government has been doing this in bad faith and here's what i say
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why i would not have supported an ar-15 ban or a handgun ban being put through the legislature as part
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of c71. it's bad policy and it's bad politics but i would have more respect for at least a process that
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goes through the parliamentary channels than the order in council that bill blair is mulling now
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and this order in council serves no other purpose than to subvert the democratic process now the good
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news is that if there's a change in government something that can be done by cabinet by the stroke
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of a pen can also be undone by cabinet by the stroke of a pen but there's a big if there number one there
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needs to be a change in government and though there is an election coming up in october there's no guarantee
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the conservatives will win andrew shear has said that he will if elected prime minister undo c71
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but the problem with ar-15s and handguns is that it's very difficult given how much misinformation
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exists about these guns to have a politician do anything about them if just just think of this
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if andrew shear were to be the prime minister right now and we're to say we're making it so
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the canadians can go back to owning ar-15s the media is going to hang on his shoulder everyone who's
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ever been killed by an ar-15 they're going to make him the perpetrator of the sandy hook shooting
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this is exactly what's going to happen because the media does not understand or does not want to
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understand guns you know i once saw a news story this is a completely minor point but i feel the
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need to share it anyway i saw a news story that was talking about a firearm seizure that had taken place
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and someone was accused of uh or the police were said were said to have taken from someone they arrested
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a bolt action semi-automatic gun now if you're a gun owner you're scratching your head right now wondering
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what on earth a bolt action semi-automatic gun is if you're not a gun owner you might not know
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that that is impossible bolt action is not semi-automatic semi-automatic is not bolt action
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something cannot be both but what had happened in this case is police had sent out a press release
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and they had made a mistake in what they called the firearm and the person who wrote the story had no
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idea because most people in media in canada have never held a gun in their life let alone owned one so they
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just copy and paste it and assume that it's valid and i would love to see a lot more literacy
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about firearms because so many of the issues here so many of the issues in canadian understanding could
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be dealt with if canadians had a bit more exposure to it you've got two groups of people you've got
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those who are malicious and hate guns and hate gun owners and you also have uh the other side of this
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which is people that genuinely have just never been around it before and the uh canadian shooting
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sports association and the canadian coalition for firearms rights now i'm a member of both
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organizations so i want to disclose that but both of them have done great work at actually inviting
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politicians out to the gun range and some of them have taken them up on this offer i don't know how
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many non-conservatives versus conservatives i know conservatives right now are about the only allies
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that gun owners have conservatives and and the people's party of canada uh but the conservatives
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have done a lot more on this historically because when stephen harper was in power uh the conservatives
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were being quite friendly to gun owners so right now you have bill blair who instead of facing voters
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and putting any gun laws in legislation is waiting until the 11th hour potentially to put it in an order
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in council now if the liberals are hell-bent on eroding firearm owning rights and freedoms in
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canada the position that i've made is they have to go to the voters and say it in the election and they
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have to get a mandate to do it now that doesn't deal with my issues with such legislation but at least
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it or it removes the lack of transparency component of it and that i think is significant now jim writes
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on well jordan writes on facebook c71 is a bad bill period i agree uh very much jordan i'm of the same
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mind on that jim writes canadians don't know what it's like to have your rights taken away but they
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will know this is the tip of the iceberg you know i think that's an important point here because i
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mentioned earlier in this stream that gun owners are a minority group in canada statistically it's not a
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tiny group i mean we're talking about millions of legally owned guns in canada but it still is a
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minority of the population that is impacted by changes to gun laws and if people turn a blind eye
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because oh well i'm not a gun owner it's not my problem you are giving government license to make
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other legislative changes or uh super legislative changes that impact you down the road because you
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didn't speak up now and i'm not gonna you know torture that uh martin nemoeller poem of first they came
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for the and i didn't speak because that's not about gun owners that's about something far more
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significant but there is something to that idea of you need to look out when government is undemocratically
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taking away someone else's rights because it could just as easily be yours down the road once that
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becomes the standard and once that becomes the precedent so i do think people need to pay attention there
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and also look at the inventory issues right now the fact that gun stores across canada cannot keep
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certain handguns on the shelves cannot keep ar-15s on the shelf says that there is a contingent
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of gun owners in canada a sizable contingent that is not prepared to take this lying down
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so bill blair whose job is to apparently take guns off the street has actually done more
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to put guns into the civilian market than he's done to take them out of it because bill blair's
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fear-mongering has caused people to you know like the charlton heston thing uh you know make sure that
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the government will only get them from their cold dead hands because one of the other issues with c71
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is basically the liberals trying to secretly bring back a gun registry and the long gun registry one of the
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most colossally failed programs in canadian history when it comes to policing and justice it was the
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program that if you were to have a non-restricted gun like a hunting rifle or a shotgun or even a musket
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you had to register it it cost billions of dollars did nothing for public safety the conservatives thank
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goodness got rid of it when stephen harper was in office but the current infrastructure now the liberals
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keep saying we're not bringing back the gun registry we're not bringing it back but one of the things
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that c71 does is makes it a requirement that a gun stores log the serial number make model license number
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name address of anyone who buys a non-restricted gun so this means now by the way a lot of gun stores do
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this for their own records but now the government is compelling it there is a record that government is
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aware of of where every gun is going to be in canada that is sold from the implementation date of this
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until this is repeal which means that there is de facto a registry now the only difference is it's not
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a centralized registry but it means that government is going to at a certain point if a gun is used in a
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crime try to subpoena this record and boom all of a sudden we've got a gun registry that is of access
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to the government and of use to the government so these are why these issues are significant and why
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gun owners need to step up and do it and look i'm doing this because i believe in it and because it
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impacts me but i'm trying to bridge this gap between gun owners who are aware of these issues and even
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non-gun owners you may not personally have seen in the game but we're talking about due process we're
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talking about rights and more importantly we're talking about ineffectual inept legislation
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that is being done under this guise of public safety but actually has no public safety benefit
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the only people impacted by these are those with a willingness to follow the law as it is
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i don't want a criminal record i don't want guns seized i don't want to break the law i am a law
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abiding person that's in my nature that's in my dna so i'm going to follow all these rules begrudgingly but
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i'll follow them i will follow them the criminals that are causing the gun issues in canada that are
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causing the gun homicides that don't have legal guns that don't have registered guns that don't
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have licenses they're not going to follow them this is not rocket science and i know i shouldn't be
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expecting rocket science from government right now but the people that are impacted by this are the ones
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like me not the ones that are actually committing the crimes so bill blair is going to continue to
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try to push that boundary as much as he feels he can get away with politically which is why we need
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to look to the government and defiantly and clearly say stop right now and that's one of the things true
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north is doing that's one of the things i'm doing i will say we can't do this alone as a media outlet that
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is actually aware of firearms laws and promoting them from a perspective of law-abiding gun ownership
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we do need your support we are a grassroots organization if you head on over to tnc.news
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and you can chip in a couple of dollars to our efforts it's tax deductible we very much appreciate
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it and you can also join the heritage club the andrew lawton heritage club specifically for about ten
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dollars a month you get some great bonuses and you can support the work that we're doing so that's my
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pitch hope you all have a great rest of the week thank you for dealing with my raspiness
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and thanks for listening we'll talk to you next week canada thank you god bless and good day