PJ The Belt - April 02, 2026


Canada's Gun Grab Just COLLAPSED!! - Defiant Owners Prevail


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Length

8 minutes

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152.95856

Word Count

1,277

Sentence Count

86

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

3


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00:00:00.000 Individual owners are advised all assault-style firearms must be disposed of or permanently deactivated before the amnesty period ends October 30th, 2026.
00:00:12.360 The yield hasn't been great. Liberals, I think, would even agree when they look at the numbers.
00:00:18.720 90% of the gun owners have basically told the government, look, go kick rocks. We ain't returning anything. We ain't giving you anything. You want them? Come and get them.
00:00:30.000 well this is it canada's gun grab just failed and the liberals know it for years they told you this
00:00:38.540 was inevitable that low-abiding canadians will line up hand over their property and say thank
00:00:44.420 you but that's not what happened firearms owners said no then the provinces said no and the police
00:00:51.560 did the same and now the federal government is stuck with a confiscation scheme that looks strong
00:00:57.500 on paper but has no one willing to enforce it and even though they'll never admit to it publicly
00:01:03.700 their little authoritarian experiment is blowing up in their faces it's actually collapsing
00:01:09.840 at the montreal shooting club
00:01:15.140 the gun buyback program has been a target for criticism 90 of these of our of the gun owners
00:01:24.400 I've basically told the government, look, go kick rocks, we ain't returning anything.
00:01:30.280 The Lachine Outfitter sells everything from semi-automatic weapons.
00:01:34.120 Some of them are distinctively made for hunting, like something like this would definitely be made for hunting.
00:01:38.680 To handguns. But this one, an M1, is now on the banned list,
00:01:43.820 along with around 2,500 other models deemed assault style by the federal government.
00:01:49.300 These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.
00:01:59.040 The Prime Minister at the time adding the program will make Canada safer, an assertion Frank Nardi doesn't agree with.
00:02:06.640 Criminals don't care about your laws. They don't care about the buyback. They just want to buy a gun.
00:02:11.360 The Quebec government supports the initiative and Montreal police confirm officers will be involved to help collect the gun.
00:02:18.120 We have a ban on most assault weapons in Canada and that's not going to change
00:02:24.280 whether or not there's a big participation or not in the buyback.
00:02:29.000 Heidi Rathjen has been advocating for strong laws for years.
00:02:34.120 After she was a student during the Polytechnic shooting
00:02:37.800 and was outspoken for increased measures following Dawson College.
00:02:41.960 She pushed for the ban but adds it should be expanded
00:02:45.720 And she's particularly concerned about this gun, the SKS, one of the most popular at Nardi's shop.
00:02:52.660 The government has shied away from dealing with this weapon.
00:02:57.500 Even if owners don't participate in the buyback now, they'll have till the end of October to get rid of any bent weapon.
00:03:04.760 I'm worrying about giving you any. You want them, come and get them.
00:03:06.520 I would rather show my objection by not declaring.
00:03:10.540 You're asking for me to give up my hobby, give up tens of thousands of dollars worth of firearms and do something else.
00:03:16.060 Is the restriction to what I'm allowed to do or what I'm allowed to own, is that worth what we're getting on the other side?
00:03:22.540 There's going to be no change to homicide rates, to mass shooting rates.
00:03:25.900 None of this stuff's going to change.
00:03:27.340 And this is where the mask falls off.
00:03:29.880 This isn't just policy anymore.
00:03:32.140 This is behavior.
00:03:33.580 This is what it looks like when a government demands compliance.
00:03:37.420 They just keep pushing harder anyway.
00:03:39.580 not because it's working but because they can't afford to back down because backing down would
00:03:45.880 mean that they were wrong and they can't have that so what do they do they escalate they get
00:03:51.960 more aggressive more confrontational almost like they're not in control anymore they're reacting
00:03:58.500 and that's where the abuse of power part comes in because when you're used to getting your way
00:04:05.000 and suddenly you don't, you start looking for other ways to force the outcome. And that's
00:04:10.800 exactly what this feels like. Not confidence, not leadership, but desperation. And you can feel it
00:04:18.020 in that room. You can hear it in the way they're talking. This isn't a we've got this under control
00:04:23.260 kind of thing. This is a why are you not listening to us type of situation. Today is the deadline for
00:04:30.360 Canadians to submit a declaration to participate in the federal government's assault style
00:04:34.920 firearms compensation program, the buyback program as it's known. It's open to all individual
00:04:40.260 firearms owners in Canada who possess eligible firearms that were prohibited back in May of 2020,
00:04:47.360 December of 2024 or March of 2025. The weapons have to have been acquired prior to their relevant
00:04:53.980 prohibition date. The government advises that while participating in the buyback program is
00:04:58.860 voluntary. Compliance with the law is not. Individual owners are advised all assault style
00:05:05.200 firearms must be disposed of or permanently deactivated before the amnesty period ends
00:05:12.040 October 30th, 2026. But I'll pick up one word there, confiscation. This is not about confiscation.
00:05:17.780 This is about voluntary return of firearms for compensation, for confiscation. So let's talk
00:05:25.400 about the biggest lie when it comes to this. This buyback was never voluntary. It was a compliance
00:05:32.760 based confiscation. And Ottawa's entire plan depended on one thing, obedience. But here's what
00:05:40.380 they didn't plan for. Canadians did not obey. Most legally owned firearms have not been turned in.
00:05:48.240 Owners aren't lining up. They're digging in. Now look at the provinces. Alberta and Saskatchewan
00:05:54.760 have openly moved to block enforcement, passing laws and directives that prevent local police
00:06:01.240 and municipalities from acting as federal confiscation agents. And then there's the
00:06:06.040 police themselves. Police leaders across the country have been very clear. They do not want
00:06:12.340 this job. They're not set up for it. And they're not interested in turning millions of law-abiding
00:06:17.740 citizens into criminals for Ottawa's politics. So here's what you're left with. A gun grab with
00:06:24.260 no buyers, no enforcers, and no provinces. Just press releases and delays. Today, March 31st,
00:06:31.900 is the last day gun owners can participate in Ottawa's buyback program. According to Public
00:06:38.040 Safety Minister Gary Ananda Sangri, more than 51,000 assault-style firearms have been declared
00:06:43.540 by gun owners since January. That number, it's just a fraction of the 150,000 banned guns Public
00:06:49.940 Safety Canada says are circulating inside the country. Could be more. For a closer look at how
00:06:55.400 the program is faring, we're joined by Francis Langlois, firearms policy expert and professor
00:06:59.560 of history at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Good morning to you.
00:07:03.700 Good morning, Nancy.
00:07:04.800 So this program relies on local police to collect these banned firearms from owners. Most local
00:07:09.540 police forces have said, no, we're not going to do that. We're not going to participate.
00:07:13.500 Premiers across the political spectrum have really criticized this policy. So
00:07:17.060 Why is the buyback program facing so many roadblocks?
00:07:21.780 I think there are two main reasons.
00:07:23.840 First, a few of the prime ministers and the municipalities feared, I would say, the wrath of gun owners and people who are against that type of policy.
00:07:38.700 And the other thing is that people want to be as far as possible from possible problems that could appear, a bit like what happened at the beginning of the 2000s when the federal government was trying to put on, create a registry that cost so many millions of dollars.
00:08:01.920 So I think that both reasons explain why most provincial and municipal authorities are keeping our existence from the program.
00:08:14.320 Why would we want to take on that whole headache?
00:08:16.320 Alberta and Saskatchewan have passed legislation barring the program from their jurisdictions.