The government wants to confiscate your guns and force you to hand them over to the federal government. That's not a buyback, that's a forced seizure with a gift card attached to it. And they've got the nerve to say it's a "voluntary" program.
00:00:00.000At the Cape Breton Regional Police Service, we have the capacity and the expertise to safely collect, verify, and secure prohibited firearms identified in our area so that the government can test the elements of this program.
00:00:14.260This program is really a way to help lawful gun owners stay in compliance with the law.
00:00:21.280We see this as giving them an opportunity to surrender what they are no longer allowed to possess.
00:00:28.480During the election campaign, we committed to moving ahead with implementing an efficient gun buyback program for assault-style firearms such as the AR-15s.
00:00:39.940Today, we're here to talk about our government's next steps in making good on that promise to Canadians.
00:00:46.880As you've seen, we have already taken action in that regard.
00:00:50.480We told the municipalities, no, you can't have a handgun ban. That is not municipal jurisdiction.
00:00:54.940We told the RCMP, no, you cannot participate in the confiscation scheme.
00:01:00.480We've told our sheriffs that. We have told municipal forces.
00:01:03.220We're working right now on what a legislative framework for an Alberta firearms license would look like.
00:01:08.840And we're going to fight it out because property and civil rights are our jurisdiction under Section 91 of the Constitution.
00:01:16.520You know, I keep hearing the Canadian government call this draconian initiative a buyback program, and I gotta laugh.
00:01:24.820Because how exactly can the government buy back something that it never owned in the first place?
00:01:30.480That's not a buyback. That's a forced seizure with a gift card attached to it.
00:01:35.280And they've got the nerve to insist that it is voluntary.
00:02:28.980Well, honestly, it's a waste of taxpayers' money.
00:02:31.500The head of the Port Morian Wildlife Association is concerned that people like hunters, sports shooters, and gun collectors might be unfairly impacted by the pilot project.
00:02:48.940There were legal firearms when they got them.
00:02:50.840It's not the firearms that are causing the issues.
00:02:54.060Canada's Public Safety Minister, Gary Anandasangari, found himself defending his government's gun buyback program that he appeared to criticize in a recording made on Sunday.
00:03:05.200Anandasangari did not know he was being recorded when he said that if he had the chance,
00:03:10.400he would not have proceeded with a federal program aimed at buying assault rifles and other weapons from gun owners.
00:03:16.500David Aiken has listened to the recording.
00:03:18.840David, what does the minister say on it?
00:03:21.420Well, this recording, Donna, was made by a tenant of a property that Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangari owns in Toronto.
00:03:28.940The tenant had called Anandasangari about a landlord-tenant issue, but then the tenant says Anandasangari brought up the government's gun control plan.
00:04:41.080The same government that lets repeat violent offenders out on bail the same day is laser-focused on making sure your neighbor down the road can't keep his hunting rifle.
00:04:51.640They tell us it's about protecting Canadians.
00:04:55.020But if that was true, why are the people actually causing the violence walking free while law-abiding gun owners get treated like criminals?
00:05:38.320Mr. Speaker, the public safety minister has admitted that going after farmers and hunters hunt rifles is not going to fight crime.
00:05:47.020So the only reason to do this is politics.
00:05:50.600So it's telling the truth and why not reverse, if not, why isn't he fired?
00:05:53.180Mr. Speaker, the gun registry, what the government is doing with the gun registry is putting in place a much more efficient way, an efficient way for Canadians to voluntarily return prohibited firearms, voluntarily return prohibited firearms for fair compensation.
00:06:16.200This government is going to do it right.
00:06:19.580But his own minister of public safety says this government is doing it wrong.
00:06:24.560He was caught on tape saying the program won't work, and yet they are going to rip $750 million away from our border and police services to harass duck hunters and farmers by banning the firearms they use.
00:06:37.400This approach has led to a 130% increase in gun crime under the Liberals' watch.
00:06:45.020The police say they won't implement it.
00:06:47.560The minister says it's a bad idea, but they're only doing it for political reasons.
00:06:53.720Why is the prime minister putting lives at risk for politics?
00:06:57.520And let's not forget, Alberta and Saskatchewan already said that they're not going along with this.
00:07:03.780They've told their police, point blank, to not enforce Ottawa's gun grab.
00:07:08.180And that's what's got the feds panicked.
00:07:11.400Because the second provinces start drawing lines in the sand, the illusion of federal authority starts to crumble.
00:07:19.040They can't stand the idea of Western Canadians standing up and saying, enough.
00:07:27.920Because history has shown over and over, when governments scramble to disarm their people, it's never because they want to make you safer.
00:07:37.960It's because they're planning something they know you wouldn't tolerate if you still had the means to fight back.
00:07:43.860So maybe the real question isn't, why do they want your guns?
00:07:47.700The real question might be, what are they getting ready to do once they've taken them away?
00:07:54.260Currently we have a public safety minister who wants to come and take my legally obtained firearms,
00:07:58.620which I took a safety course for, legally purchased, but he can't define what a restricted position acquisition license is.
00:08:05.300He had to recuse himself from a terrorist organization, which is the Tamale Tigers.
00:08:09.140I will not be handing them over to the federal government because I'm not supposed to give my firearms to criminals.
00:08:13.240So I can't go to the range, I can't do my sport shooting with 90% of my firearms because I became a criminal overnight with an unjust gun grab fraud.
00:08:24.420I know that Premier Smith is familiar with the homeowner in Ontario who was just charged with injuring a home intruder who had a crossbow.
00:08:32.780Canadians are being charged for protecting themselves, their families and their property and being backed into a corner through submission by the federal government.
00:08:39.600We're being told to leave our keys beside our unlocked door as criminals have more rights than we do.
00:08:45.060So where would the Alberta police force stand in relation to the legal firearm owners?
00:09:17.080They don't come in and say red cars have a disproportionate number of accidents.
00:09:22.100Therefore, we're going to ban red cars and confiscate them.
00:09:24.880They're able to see that there is one use of that particular piece of property that is criminal and they let us regulate who gets a driver's license and who registers a car.
00:09:36.380So I'm just going to take that analogy a little bit further.
00:09:38.800They can regulate the criminal use of firearms.
00:09:40.960They can go after the bad guys who are breaking into people's houses with crossbows.
00:09:44.040And we will then regulate the legal use of firearms so you can continue to own them, collect them, use them for sport shooting, use them for hunting, and use them for other purposes.
00:09:54.480So we're working right now on what a legislative framework for an Alberta firearms license would look like.
00:10:00.740And we're going to fight it out because property and civil rights are our jurisdiction under Section 91 of the Constitution.
00:10:08.900As you've seen, we have already taken action in that regard.
00:10:12.380We told the municipalities, no, you can't have a handgun ban.
00:10:23.680We have told municipal forces, if you want to participate in the confiscation scheme, you have to come and get a permit from the Justice Minister.
00:10:32.960There is a piece that we're missing because Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said that any of the mail delivery services were not allowed to convey these firearms.
00:10:41.080We're going to have to change our legislation to make sure that that's not a loophole that they can use as well.
00:10:45.400We've also passed our own Firearms Act, and we will do everything we possibly can to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to get the permit that they need to participate in that program.
00:10:55.180That's our ability to do that, using our ability to regulate on professions.
00:10:58.980So, in short, you'll see that us and Saskatchewan are going to do whatever we can to make sure that we're defending firearms owners' rights.
00:11:06.120And I know we're coming up to a deadline here, so just have some patience because we know how important that is.
00:11:12.060We just have a different approach we want to take in Alberta, and I think that that is what the Constitution allows, and we'll see what the courts say about it.
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