Carney ENDORSES carbon taxes while PANDERING to global elites
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Chris Sims explains why Prime Minister Mark Carney still loves carbon taxes, and why they're coming back in 2020. He talks about it in a keynote at the Global Progress Action Summit in London, England, and explains why it's a good thing.
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Welcome to The Candace Malcolm Show. My name is Chris Sims. I'm the Alberta Director for the
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Canadian Taxpayers Federation, sitting in Candace's chair for the next few days. Thank you so much for
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making us a part of your new week. If you haven't done so yet, be sure to like this video, subscribe
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to the channel, and most importantly, share it with your friends. Now, this kind of slipped under
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the radar, and I really think it's important for all of our Juno News viewers to know what's going
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on. Prime Minister Mark Carney had jetted over to England on Friday, and he was at some big fancy
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mucky-muck globalist summit called the Global Progress Action Summit. Now, that sounds kind of
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boring, but it's really important that we pay attention to this stuff because this is where
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all of these jet-setting politicians get together, and it's kind of like high school, but with your
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money and a lot of power over you. And they get together, and they start chit-chatting, and they
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start trying to one-up each other on stuff like banning the sale of normal gasoline and diesel-powered
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vehicles. If somebody were from British Columbia or Vancouver, for example, they'd probably be bragging
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about the fact that they're banning new homes being built with natural gas furnaces in them. Yeah,
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check that out in Vancouver. So, it's summits like these where these terrible, expensive, big
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government ideas are hatched, so it's super important for us to pay attention to them. I have a clip here
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for you, okay? It is Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, who just so happens to be on stage
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with the Prime Minister of the UK, Keir Starmer. This is just after Keir Starmer made his big
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announcement that made big news about digital ID in England, in his country. Now, what Carney says here
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is super important. You have to listen to the whole thing. It's about a minute long, and he chit-chats
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about Karl Marx a little bit, so keep listening. At the very end, he calls carbon taxes textbook good
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You know, the reality of what you inherited, going 15 years without real wages, without people getting
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ahead. Like, the last time that happened was the middle of the 19th century. Karl Marx was writing the
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Communist Manifesto in the British Library. I mean, there is a connection there. So, you've got to
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deliver real wage growth, first and foremost. And so, similar to in Australia, slightly different
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measures. First thing we did is we cut taxes for the middle class. We cut taxes for 22 million
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Canadians. Boom. Right away, first thing we did, we cut a tax for effectively for young Canadians when
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they're buying their first time home. Cut taxes on carbon, which was also the direct carbon tax,
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which had become a divisive issue. It was a, you know, in textbook, a good policy, but a divisive
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issue. So... Do you hear that? Textbook good policy. Now, the reason I'm trying to hammer this thing
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home is twofold. One, Mark Carney loves carbon taxes. Like, here, I've got his book here. He wrote an entire
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book, okay? Praising carbon taxes. Like, global carbon taxes. So, one, Carney still loves carbon
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taxes. And do you notice how he kind of looked a little bit apologetic there in front of all of his
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little progressive friends on the stage? He had to kind of account for that. So, he still loves carbon
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taxes, and he's going to hit us with new ones. He said so, to be fair, he said so out loud during the
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election campaign. He said he wasn't going to axe the tax, which he found funny. He's going to change
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the carbon tax. So, right now, we're in kind of a lull. We're kind of in a phony war moment right now
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because he did get rid of the consumer carbon tax. That's why, typically, it's about 20 cents cheaper
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per liter of gasoline, on average, in most gas stations across Canada than it was a year ago.
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So, it's gone, but he's still cooking up the new industrial carbon tax. And the new industrial
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carbon tax is going to be a big one. How big? Well, it was big enough for the steel workers and
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the pipe workers' trade unions to be so worried about it for their steel plants in Hamilton that
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they endorsed the Conservatives during the last election. That was the first time I've ever seen
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something like that. So, the industrial carbon tax, it's coming. They're still cooking it, and it's
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coming. Second, the other reason I wanted to really hammer this home is because, like I said, it's at
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globally summits where they all get together and they eat beef carpaccio and canapes and stuff all on your
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dime, okay? It's at these summits where bad ideas start. And one of the original bad ideas was carbon
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taxes. Now, Conservative leader and opposition leader, Pierre Polyev, he took a little bit of
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heat about a month or so ago when he came out and said, yeah, we're going to keep fighting carbon
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taxes. Thank you very much. That's the right thing to do. And I would say some of the newer kind of
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online influencers in this sphere, the ones who are arguing for more freedom and smaller government,
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they're like, oh, that was the last campaign. Why are you talking about carbon taxes? No, no, no,
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no, no, no. If you care about big government controlling your life and making you poor and
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saying that you have to eat this or heat with this or drive this, carbon taxes are the OG of government
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control. This all started way back. They were chatting about this at the Rio summits. If you don't
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know what that is, Google it, look it up. So Pierre Polyev is absolutely right to continually fight
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carbon taxes. And Mark Carney is just waiting to hit us with new ones. It's going to be an industrial
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carbon tax. And keep in mind, he's still hanging on to carbon tax tariffs. He calls them border
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adjustment mechanisms. What that means is this. Mark Carney looks around the world, okay, like you can see
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right on the front of his book here, okay? That's the planet with scaffolding around it, because
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they're going to fix it, of course, for all of our benefit. He looks around the world. He finds a
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country that doesn't have a carbon tax, like a national carbon tax, and that upsets him. That upsets
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Mark Carney so much that when an import comes into Canada from one of those big bad countries with no
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federal carbon tax, he's going to slap a tariff on that stuff. Yeah, he said so during the election
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campaign, that this is his plan. He doesn't put it that way. He cloaks it in newspeak and calls it a border
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adjustment mechanism, okay? That's a carbon tax tariff, okay? So it's really important for folks to pay close
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attention when the prime minister jets off to something. Now, most of the mainstream media will cover it in like,
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oh, a happy, yay, isn't this neat, fluffy, he's going to a rugby game, blah, blah, blah. That's fine.
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It's okay to enjoy nice things. But ask yourself what the real purpose of a lot of these meetings are.
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And it's exactly stuff like this. It's being an apologist for carbon taxes and cooking up new plans
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to control your life. And carbon taxes, remember, dictate what kind of vehicle you can drive,
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what you can heat your home with, and how expensive food is, because it hits trucking.
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Speaking of expensive, the federal government is broke. We are out of money, we are in a major debt
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Okay, so the parliamentary budget officer, Jason Jocks, he's the interim parliamentary budget
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officer. So let's hope he's able to keep his job. The interim parliamentary budget officer made a lot
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of headlines last week, and he did a great job at committee. That's where he was saying that the
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amount of spending going on here and the deficit that he was estimating based on the numbers he has
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right now was stupefying. So you probably saw that clip last week. But what you probably didn't see
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was an excellent interview that he did on CPAC. And I wanted to bring this to you, or the team here at
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Juneau wanted to bring this to you, because he says something really important. You might hear some of
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the spin coming from the federal government of, oh, this budget is going to be super crazy ugly bad
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If left on change, the fiscal path that the government's currently on will definitely result
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in us being in quite a bit of trouble and having to make some hard decisions.
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Now, in getting here, what do you attribute this to? Is this like Donald Trump's trade policies,
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you know, the roosters coming home to nest? Or is this about government spending priorities and not
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I think it's kind of a little bit from column A and a little bit from column B. So there definitely
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is an impact in comparison to our previous forecast. You can definitely see the impact on the overall
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growth for the Canadian economy. A larger part of it is the government policy decisions.
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So once again, that was interim parliamentary budget officer Jason Jocks. And he's mild-mannered,
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as a lot of spokespeople in Ottawa are. But he popped that bubble there that was coming from the
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host. These are not the chickens coming home to roost. This is just really bad fiscal policy.
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Because what about before Donald Trump? Oh, was that because of the lockdowns and COVID? Okay,
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well, what about before that? Because before any of the crazy stuff happened in 2020,
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before the lockdowns, before businesses were destroyed, largely by government diktat. In 2018-2019,
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the federal government, under then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, spent more money than in any one year
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of the Second World War, adjusted for population and inflation. I know, it's crazy. I'm going to say
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that again, real slow. So remember back in the sunny ways times of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
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when he said the budget will balance itself? And we'll, oh, and we're going to balance the budget by
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2019, like scouts on her, no problem. He never balanced the budget, not even one time, okay? And
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in 2018-2019, the fiscal year before 2020, they spent more money than our government did during the
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Second World War, adjusted for inflation. So this government does not really have a US President
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Donald Trump problem. If they truly believed that, they would be earnestly doing everything they can
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to get a new trade deal with that person. Because, yeah, Canadians are suffering because of this.
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Because they're refusing to actually get in there and hammer out a trade deal. And they'd rather take
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potshots on TV to score points with their reporter friends. Normal working people in Canada, and frankly,
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plenty of people in the United States, are being hurt by this. And we just don't have the money to
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withstand this. We are now $1.2 trillion in debt, which is what Jason Jocks was sounding the alarm bell about.
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Put another way, the interest that we are paying on the federal debt is $1 billion a week. Picture a brand
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new hospital, all done, all shiny, paint on, everything ready to go. But instead of moving in the doctors
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and nurses, we burn it down. Burn it down. Every week, burn down a new hospital. That's what taxpayers
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are having to pay with interest on our federal debt. So, folks, it is time for people to really
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wake up to this debt spiral that we're in right now because we don't have the money to cover stuff
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like this. Speaking of not having the money, there's something that is happening right now
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that is going to cost taxpayers a ton of money. And that is the so-called buyback program for firearms
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owners. Now, before you say, oh, I'm not a gun owner and I don't care and it's a crime thing. No,
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no, no, no. Okay. Number one, they might be coming after people's firearms right now, but they could be
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coming after your pickup truck tomorrow. Like, real easy. So, this is a private property issue. Two,
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this is going to cost the so-called buyback program a ton of money. Okay. Experts are guessing
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anywhere from like $1 billion with a B to $6 billion with a B. And when they tried this back
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in the early 90s with the whole long gun registry, they said, oh, no problem. It'll cost $2 million.
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It wound up costing taxpayers $2 billion. So, times $1,000. So, we have un-money. We do not have the
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money to do this firearms thing. And three, the police themselves say targeting licensed legal
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firearms owners is not going to solve crime. This is going to be a huge waste of money and
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resources. Police do not want to participate in this thing. And it is not going to solve the crime
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problem. Where do we go from here with this? Let's find out. Joining me now is Devin Drover. He is a
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friend of mine. He's also the Atlantic Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. And most importantly,
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when it comes to guns, he's our in-house lawyer. He is our legal counsel. Devin, thank you so much for
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joining us today. We really appreciate your time. Thank you so much for having me.
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So, we're taking an extra step here at the Taxpayers Federation. And I winced on your behalf
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when you made this announcement last week because you said, here's my email address. If folks are on
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Cape Breton Island, okay, if you're living there geographically, and you get one of these letters
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from the federal government, we will find you free legal advice. That is outstanding. As a firearms
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owner, I know I would find that to be a comfort after I get a letter like that because it's scary.
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It's scary to hear from the federal government in that way. What exactly are you doing when it comes
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to free legal advice for firearms owners? Yeah, exactly. And I think you hit the nail on the head
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when you said it's scary. I know, you know, as a lawyer, I deal with kind of how to say this
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appropriately, pissing matches with the federal government's lawyers on a regular basis. And I
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don't think, you know, it's not something as a lawyer, it makes me uncomfortable. But when you're
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not so many legally trained and you get this strongly worded letter from the federal government
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for the RCMP, you know, about taking your personal property, it can be scary. So that's what we're
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doing at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. We're offering free legal advice to anyone impacted by
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the confiscation scheme. And so very pleased to do it. Anyone local in Cape Breton Island that's
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dealing with, you know, threats from the federal government to have their property confiscated
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can email us at legal underscore team at taxpayer.com. And you'll hear from me or a member of the team
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about how to protect your rights. So that's legal underscore team as in join the team at taxpayer.com.
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That's the email? Absolutely. Legal underscore team at taxpayer.com. If you send an email and you're
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a resident of Cape Breton being threatened by this confiscation program, we will, myself and the team
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of lawyers I'm working with on this file, we'll make sure we get back to you as soon as possible to
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make sure your rights are protected and that you do not need to comply with the program as is.
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Perfect. I wanted to get that in there off the top because I know, you know, some people who are
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in possession of these firearms right now are really looking for a place to turn. So I wanted to get
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that on the record right away. I wanted to dig into the issue a little bit as well, though, because
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I've seen some screw ups at the federal government level. I can't remember the time I've seen an issue
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like this handled this badly. So we've got experts, okay, like criminology type people saying this is
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going to cost upwards of a billion dollars with a B, which is just a mind blowing amount of money
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warning that this is going to cost a lot of money. We've got police on the front lines. So the ones
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who are actually representing, you know, guys and girls in blue saying, um, this is not going to help
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the crime problems that we have at the city level. Why are we going after legal firearms owners and not
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the bad guys with the illegal handguns? And what blows my mind is that we also had the public safety
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minister who clearly did not have a grasp on what this program was. What's your assessment of, I would
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say, the latest incarnation of the federal government handling this right now?
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Yeah. So that's a great question, Chris. And it's always funny. We have this administration in Ottawa,
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this big bloated government in Ottawa, that's always telling us when we raise concerns,
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well, we have to listen to the experts. Well, the experts aren't telling them that this is a good
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policy. In fact, everyone is against this. You have the fire or you have, um, you know,
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you have the Toronto police association saying it's going to have zero impact on crime in Toronto. You
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have a professor King from Mount Royal university saying it won't impact crime rates. The only thing
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that it is going to impact is one, the personal property rights of legal firearm owners in this country
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country and us as taxpayers across this country. And yeah, the estimates are insane, Chris, we have,
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you know, first they told us that it would cost $200 million. Um, then two years later,
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three to $400 million. The government's own parliamentary budget officer is now saying
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it'll cost 756 million just to purchase the guns. Let's not talk about the administrative bloat
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that it costs to get anything done in this country at the federal level. And now you have other experts
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who are putting the total costs at $6 billion as one example. So, you know, this is a rampant
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abuse of taxpayer dollars and it's targeting the wrong people. It's not targeting those who
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are committing crimes using illegal firearms. We're targeting hunters. We're targeting sports
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shooters. We're talking, we're, uh, targeting law abiding gun owners in this country and the
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program needs to stop. Yeah. To be very clear, I mentioned it off the top before you joined the show,
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but for folks who just woke up to this issue, we are not talking about illegal guns. This has
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nothing to do with illegal guns. So, you know, the folks that you see that are filling the parking
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lots at Cabela's on the weekends, right? They're, they're buying up all this hunting gear and
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everything. There are millions of us, okay. Who are legal licensed law abiding firearms owners.
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We have to go through a safety course. All of our backgrounds are checked all the time.
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Like the RCMP phones, all of your exes to make sure that you're not a crazy person before you're
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allowed to have a license for a firearm here in Canada. It's those folks with their firearms
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that for some inexplicable reason, the federal government is going after. And before people say,
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oh, well, those guns are dangerous. The Trudeau government announced this back in 2020. It's
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now 2025. So those same firearms owners have been hanging onto those things in their gun safes for
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five years. And there hasn't been rampant violence on the streets being committed by licensed firearms
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owners. I'm laughing because the whole thing is just so absurd. I wanted to play a quick clip here
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and kudos to the Toronto Police Association. I know that police are hesitant to say stuff that
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will be interpreted as being political. They just want to keep their head down and do their jobs.
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But it's really important that the Toronto Police Association is speaking up on this,
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basically saying this is going to cost a lot of money, waste resources, and it's not going to solve
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the crimes on the street. This is Clayton Campbell at committee in Ottawa. Let's listen.
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The bottom line, the city of Toronto is the gun buyback program would not have any impact on the
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violence we're seeing in the city. The violence we're seeing in relation to firearm offenses is
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essentially exclusively to a small number of gang members, thugs using illegal firearms. Most of the time
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that come across the border, about 90% of the 700 illegal firearms we seized last year came across the
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border. And most of the time, people on bail are prohibited from using a firearm.
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Amazing. Like, you couldn't have said it more clearly on this show. Devin, what's your take on
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the public safety minister? Because this is what kind of really had me cluing into this harder,
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saying, wow, you guys are really screwing this up. Famously, before the summer break,
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Andrew Lawton, former host here on Juno News and its predecessor, True North,
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he started quizzing the public safety minister saying, okay, what's a PAL possession and
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acquisition license? What's the safety course that firearms owners have to take? And he famously said,
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this isn't doesn't have anything to do with legal firearms owners. Which was amazing, because that's
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all this is about. And now we've recently heard him on a recording when he didn't know he was being
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recorded, basically saying, if I had to do this all over again, I wouldn't do this. And this is kind
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of a big mistake. What's your take on his handling of this file so far? Do you think this will be the
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ability to get rid of it? It might help us get rid of it?
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's very clear that the public safety minister in Ottawa has absolutely no
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idea about this program and absolutely no idea how to solve the issues facing public safety.
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You know, as we see in that clip, the problems with in Toronto, for example, in crime is not
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law abiding gun owners, it is the, you know, limited to gang activity, and illegal firearms
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brought over the border. It is not my father moose hunting in Newfoundland and Labrador is not a
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criminal. And this government instead is treating them like one with this ban. So, you know, I think
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it's it's very clear that he's in over his head on this file, it's very clear that this program needs
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to be scrapped. If you know, in the idea that, you know, if he had his time back, he would do it
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different. The time is still here. We still have we're still under an amnesty period where the firearm
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owners are legally allowed to keep these these firearms in their homes. They do not need to comply
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with the confiscation that their trial that's taking place in Cape Breton right now. And you know,
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it's real telling to me and this is this is bothersome as an Atlantic Canadian, because I think
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this government takes advantage of Atlantic Canadians sometimes in their support for them.
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And I think, you know, it's telling to me that the public safety ministers announcing this trial
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of this confiscation regime in Cape Breton Island, but wouldn't even go to Cape Breton to announce it.
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They did it from an they they hit an Ottawa press room to tell legal law abiding gun owners in Cape
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Breton that they're coming for their property. It is sickening to me as an Atlantic Canadian. And I'm
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tired of seeing our Atlantic Canadians being treated like this by the federal administration
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in Ottawa. However, as I've said, we are offering free legal advice for those people. And we're not
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going to let Cape Breton be a guinea pig for this federal program. We'll we'll encourage resistance
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legally to make sure that this program cannot roll out across the country.
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I wanted to really stress that you're jittering a little bit there with your audio, but I wanted
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to reinstate what you said there. Quite often, and I've lived in Atlantic Canada, a lot of my family
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is from there. I agree, the Liberal government in particular, because they have quite strong support
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out that way, as they say, I find that they take them for granted, and that they think, oh, well,
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they're going to be a soft touch. We're just going to do this little pilot project there where we're
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seizing their property for no safety reasons. And so that's why I'm really glad that we're
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stressing two things. Don't freak out if you get one of these letters in the mail. Okay. And two,
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this is so important. And he barely mentioned this, but it's true. We have another year. We have
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another year of amnesty. So even if you have one of these firearms, okay, some of which, by the way,
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folks who are watching are like 22s, okay, people call them plinkers here on the prairies, okay?
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If you have one of them, you still have another year. You have until October of 2026. So that gives
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us some breathing room and some time to be able to challenge this stuff legally. Devin, I wanted you
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to touch on something that I'll admit, I'm not a lawyer. This part confused me. And I don't know
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why they keep using this term. So we had Prime Minister Mark Carney tell a podcaster, oh, this
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program is voluntary. It's voluntary. And then we had the public safety minister repeat that word.
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And so this is, I think it caused a lot of confusion among licensed firearms owners.
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Do you know what they mean when they keep on saying that the program is voluntary?
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Oh, this is such clearly an example of, and probably cooked up by some PR experts in Ottawa
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and liberal HQ to try to make this program a little more sellable to the general public.
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It is not voluntary any more than paying your income taxes is voluntary. Yeah, you can choose
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to do it or you can choose not to do it and go to jail or face criminal consequences. That's not
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voluntary to me. No matter how Ottawa wants to put lipstick on a pig here, it is a bad policy and
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they're not going to be able to convince Canadians, convince law-abiding gun owners to give up their
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rights by throwing around words like voluntary. It is not voluntary. They are making it a criminal
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defense to own these firearms that are used for hunting and sports shooting. And yeah, that's the
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That, I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt thinking they were just incompetent
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because of what the safety minister had been saying earlier. But when they kept repeating that,
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I thought, yeah, so the choice is you either comply or you go to prison. That is not a real choice.
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Frankly, after the last few years, I'm tired of hearing from this government of, oh, it's up to you,
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but we'll just take everything that you have away from you and or put you in jail. If you don't comply,
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that's voluntary. That doesn't help. That doesn't help people believing in government. That doesn't
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help people trusting politicians. And it doesn't help, frankly, this law, because it makes it sound
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really disingenuous and sneaky. If I can, is there a way, do you think, that we can get more people
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on board with this? Like, I know most of the firearms community, as we would call it, the ones who
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legally own firearms, they get this. They understand that this is going after hunters and sport shooters.
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They understand what they have to do. Do you think there's room to bring more moderate people
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on who may not own firearms or have experience with them, understanding that this, you know what,
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it could be my 22 today, but it could be your Ford F-150 tomorrow if they want to seize private
00:28:31.740
property. Are we able to go there, do you think, with that argument? Yeah, I absolutely think so. We're
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seeing an increasingly more authoritarian regime in Ottawa that is looking at taking your property away
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or your freedoms away, whether it's your freedom to purchase a vehicle that's gas-powered, which you
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need in vast amounts of this country, or whether it's now your ability to have legal firearms. So,
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you know, I think it's, we need to be making the case, you know, as to as many people as possible.
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And that means talking to non-firearm owners about this issue, because it is complicated. If you don't
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know, you know, if you're in downtown Toronto, never have touched a firearm in your life,
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and then you hear a little bit about this voluntary, quote-unquote voluntary program,
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you might think, oh, maybe this is going to help. It's not going to help. And it's very clear from
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the quote-unquote experts that it's not going to help. And it's very clear when you talk to people
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who actually are law-abiding firearm owners in this country, that they are not criminals.
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So, you know, I think we need to be open with people, we need to talk to people. And one of
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the things I'm really looking forward to is just in a couple days, I'll be on the ground in Cape
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Breton when this confiscation program officially starts. Myself, other members of the firearms
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community, some members of parliament who are standing up against this confiscation regime.
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And I'm looking forward to that, because not only will that rally on the ground there,
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you know, show that Cape Bretoners are opposed to this, it provides an opportunity for dialogue
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with other Cape Bretoners who are not aware of the policy and allows that discourse to happen.
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Awesome. Once again, Devin Drover, can you hit us with that email address? So folks,
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have mercy on Devin for now, only if you're in Cape Breton, okay? If you're in Cape Breton and you
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are a legal licensed firearms owner, and you're concerned about this program, where can they email
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you? Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the confiscation regime. If you get a
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scary letter or a phone call from government or the RCMP, and you need advice on this issue,
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please email us legal underscore help at taxpayer.com.
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Perfect. Awesome. Thank you so much for your time today, Devin Drover, Atlantic Director for the
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Canadian Taxpayers Federation and our in-house counsel. Once again, folks, two things. One,
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if you get a letter about this, don't freak out. There are still options. And two, you have another
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year. There is another year left of amnesty. So they only start actually seizing the firearms and
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saying, okay, now you have to comply in October of 2026. So there's a lot of runway left in this fight.
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Folks, this is exactly the reason why you should be a Juno News subscriber, okay? Quite often in the
00:31:18.760
mainstream media, they will talk about things like, oh, the voluntary buyback program. Like Devin just
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said, if you're some regular person living in downtown Toronto, and you're watching TV, and you
00:31:31.000
hear a bit of a snippet on the mainstream media, and it's the voluntary buyback program for firearms,
00:31:36.600
you might think that this is like, oh, this is one of those things where, you know, when you watch
00:31:41.380
those cop shows on TV in primetime, this is like one of those things where the gangbangers are turning
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in their firearms in exchange for, you know, gift certificates or something to take guns off the
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street. They named it this on purpose so that it flies under the radar. And normal, earnest people
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think that this is about fighting crime. It's not. This has got nothing to do with fighting crime,
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as the head of the Toronto Police Association said. We spoke directly to Clayton Campbell on this very
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program just a couple of weeks ago, and he said the same thing. That made news, okay? So it's really
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