Liberals pressured to fire incompetent Public Safety Minister!
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Summary
Wyatt Claypool talks about Public Safety Minister Gary Amasangari and the gun confiscation program in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and why it's a bad idea. He also talks about the "buyback" program and what it means for public safety.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Thank you for tuning into the show today. It will be a longer
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one because you cannot possibly encapsulate all the incompetence of Public Safety Minister Gary
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Amasangari in just a 10-minute video. But right now, pressure is mounting for Prime Minister Mark
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Carney to remove Gary Amasangari from cabinet. Now, I don't actually think Carney is going to
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do it in the short term. I think he's going to wait till winter break and then shuffle Gary Amasangari
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out of cabinet quietly. Because if you do it right now, obviously it will look like a big
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conservative win because they are the main group obviously putting pressure on them in order to
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get rid of Amasangari. And so they'll try to do it at a time when the media can just pretend, oh,
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you know, personality conflict. There were some problems and now they're going to make him a
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principal secretary to somebody else. Everyone will still know it was a conservative victory,
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but, you know, Carney can pretend like this was just all, you know, according to his plan
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in the first place. You know, Gary has done a great job and now he will be moving on to greener pastures,
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i.e. the far back benches. But we need to go over the rollout of the Cape Breton buyback program,
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which is really just a gun confiscation. And then I want to talk about Gary just absolutely
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taking it on the chin in question period. This is becoming a big albatross around the liberal
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government's neck. And I think that we are going to continue seeing the liberals lose credibility
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with Canadians and keep slipping down the popularity rankings. We even just had an Angus
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Reid poll come out that shows the conservative lead is starting to expand a little bit, not massively,
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but considering right now we're only like seven months into the liberal government,
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six months into the liberal government, and they are already behind the conservatives is quite
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telling. But anyways, before we get into it, I just quickly want to plug the fact that, hey,
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And also, it does help the show on the algorithm. But now, without further ado, here is Gary Amasangri
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standing behind the RCMP Cape Breton chief announcing the rollout of this buyback program.
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Of course, Amasangri is the man to his right. Oh my goodness, they had Jamie Batsy show up for this?
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I'm pleased to be here today on behalf of the Cape Breton Regional Police Service to collaborate
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with the government of Canada on this pilot for the assault-style firearm compensation program.
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Police see firsthand the devastating impacts of gun violence, and we know the importance of removing
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these dangerous firearms from our communities. So we are pleased, as a police service, to be able
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to assist by providing a safe and secure process for firearms owners to voluntarily return firearms
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that the government has now prohibited for public safety. Okay, there's a couple things here.
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One, the whole voluntary side of this. When they mean it's voluntary, they mean that you can
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voluntarily come and sell your gun back to the government, and they won't later try and prosecute
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you for owning it. So it's not voluntary. There is immense government pressure in order to follow
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the program. I hope a lot of gun owners just forget they even heard there was a buyback program going
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on, you know, lose your weapons in a boating accident. I don't know. You know, have them under a giant
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pile of books in your house. The thing is that this gun ban is not going to stand up in the long run,
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and we know this because Amasangri himself, the public safety minister, even said it was bad policy,
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and they're only doing this because it was a campaign promise from back in 2021, and so they're
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still having to carry through with it. And also with this chief of police, Robert J. Walsh, truly it
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demonstrates how so often these higher positions within the RCMP or other police forces in Canada
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are not about being a good cop. It's about being a loyal stooge for the establishment,
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for the established order of Canada, which is the liberal government. Do you think any actual cop
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in Cape Breton thinks that the big risk to public safety is legal guns? People who went through the
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training to get a possession and acquisition license or a restricted PAL, which Gary Amasangri
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doesn't know what those two things are. Quite literally, he got called out for it not even
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knowing what a Canadian gun license was. But obviously, a legal gun owner who went through
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all the training, doesn't have a criminal record, is going to be pretty responsible with their weapons.
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They are not the people who are going to carry out a mass shooting. And even the shooting that took
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place, the mass shooting that took place in Nova Scotia, was done with illegal handguns, as well
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as an illegally fixed up police car so that he could impersonate a cop. There was many crimes going on
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in that shooting, and it had nothing to do with people who are part of sports shooting associations
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or people who just have it for personal protection and went through all of the necessary
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hoops in order to get their rifle or handgun. But I will keep letting Robert J. Walsh go for here.
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I don't know what J stands for. Let's say it's Jimothy, Robert Jimothy Walsh. And then we will
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later move on to Gary Amasangri getting absolutely dunked on in question period.
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At the Cape Breton Regional Police Service, we have the capacity and the expertise to safely collect,
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verify, and secure the prohibited firearms identified in our area so that the government
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can test the elements of this program. We are a large enough organization to facilitate,
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with no impact, to our frontline service delivery.
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Liaising with gun owners and the government, we will provide feedback to ensure the program
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operates smoothly before opening Canada-wide. Testing their collection process with our police
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service gives the government an opportunity to work with a municipal partner as they prepare
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to collaborate with a number of non-federal partners across the country.
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This program is really a way to help lawful gun owners stay in compliance with the law.
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I.e. don't have guns. We're just trying to make sure lawful gun owners are compliant with the law.
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So give us your guns and then you're going to be lawfully compliant once you're disarmed.
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It's so foolish. I know you can still own other models of weapons, but the weapons that they banned
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were purely arbitrary to the point where they had paintball guns and airsoft rifles on the list
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because they had no clue what they were doing. Not that they should be banning any of these things,
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but the whole point is that they just merely just, you know, ironically shotgun sprayed a whole list of
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firearms like, ah, these ones are too dangerous because they're black or something like that.
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They're not wooden rifles. It's a black rifle, which means it's scary, even though the caliber
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is the exact same thing and the functionality is oftentimes the exact same. But now we don't need
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to listen to the rest of that. I want to jump over to the actual details of the buyback because the
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Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, the CCFR, released a list of what they're actually planning
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on buying your guns back for your assault style weapons. Look, if you have, and I'm not a firearms
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expert, but if you have a steel GM model GM-16, you'll get $150 back. A Mosberg 702 Blinkster Tactical 22,
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$190. Like, what? L8, you'll get $270. If you have an AP-15, you'll get $300. Again, I'm no guns expert,
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but I have a feeling that this is not the retail value of these firearms. In fact, they are heavily lowballing you
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because the liberals didn't actually want to put even that much money behind this buyback program.
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It's like $745 million. And so in order to make it enough money where they could feasibly actually or
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conceivably actually buy back all the guns, they're going to be giving you like one third value for a lot
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of these weapons. And then, again, not even that you should even think of selling it back to these
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people because, yeah, don't give the government an inch when it comes to your property rights and your
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own personal safety because this is both implicating your ability to defend yourself
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as well as actually be able to own your own property. Here, Polyev tweeted this out today,
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which kind of encapsulates him dunking on Gary Amasangari yesterday, but we will be showing what
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he did today. Polyev here says, Liberal Public Safety Minister Gary Amasangari got caught telling the
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truth yesterday. He admitted the $742 million liberal gun buyback boondoggle will do nothing
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to keep Canadians safe. He's targeting law-buying firearm owners as a violent criminal and extortion
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surge across the country under his watch. And then he says, stop the incompetence, fire Gary now.
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And that's also why Mark Carney is probably going to be unlikely to fire him right away because the
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conservatives are putting such pressure on him. He doesn't want to look like he's having to do
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another climb down on another policy. And so he's probably going to wait a little bit before
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throwing Gary under the bus. But here is a great clip today of Conservative MP Andrew Lawton going
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after the minister for having not even known what a gun license is or the differences between makes and
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models of different firearms. Mr. Speaker, the first job of the public safety minister is to keep
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Canadians safe. This public safety minister admitted to not knowing what a firearms license is.
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He said he doesn't know what the classifications of firearms are, and he couldn't even defend his
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own liberal government's gun confiscation scheme to his tenant on the most basic questions. And this
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is the minister responsible for Canada's gun laws. The public safety minister oversees national security,
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terrorism. What else does he not know about his own file? His incompetence puts Canadian lives at risk.
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And you will not be shocked to hear that they did not answer that question. So that is why we are
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quickly moving on to something else. And that is your poly of taking a lead pipe to the public safety
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Mr. Speaker, I must admit that I've never seen this before. On Monday, a minister said that his own program
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would not work. He was caught on recording saying that. Then on Tuesday, he announced that he would go
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forward with the program. He was right. On Monday, it's a waste of $750 million, which will be taken away
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from our border and police services. It will be used to go after hunters and sports shooters.
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Let me just take this opportunity to talk about the compensation program that we launched today.
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Yeah, not only was it going to fail in Cape Breton, but man, this guy is slow on his feet. All he does
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is just keeps reiterating that like, I really believe in this. It's a great program. We need
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to keep Canadians safe when he there's an entire tape out there of him saying the opposite. And that
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was candid. That wasn't where he's being paid to say these things. Because when you're in QP,
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goodness, you're getting the higher ministerial salary, because you play ball with what your government
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wants. And you are going to say the things that your government approves of. Whereas on tape,
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a secret taping, you're probably more likely to be saying what you actually think.
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There are roughly, yes, I want to thank the colleagues from Cape Breton for their support.
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But I also want to thank the police chief, as well as those who are going to step forward and apply
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for the rebate, Mr. Speaker. This is smart policy.
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Those who are going to step forward and take a part in the buyback. There's nobody who's going to be
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taking part in the buyback. If there are, I believe they said there are 500 guns in Cape Breton
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that are the ones that the government banned who are going to try and force you to basically sell
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it back to them. I would be shocked if they're able to get more than 10% of the firearms back.
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You might get some nervous owners who already have another larger gun collection, and they just don't
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want the trouble. And they maybe think that this is actually going to be enforced someday. So maybe
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they'll sell back. But I think that it's going to be like the dental program, where after a year,
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you're like, oh, yeah, there was like 2% compliance or something like that. 2% of dentists are taking
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I'm going to step forward and apply for the rebate, Mr. Speaker. This is smart policy. We're moving
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forward on it. And I fully, fully believe that we will be able to implement this throughout the
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country over the next year. But he said the exact opposite in the recording, Mr. Speaker.
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He admitted that confiscating $750 million worth of our arms will not work. And he even made a promise
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to his renter. He promised to hire 1,000 border agents. Meanwhile, 400% of firearm crimes are from
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firearms that come up the border, up from the border. He lost 600 dangerous criminals somewhere
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on our streets. And he doesn't even know how to define a firearm or what's a dangerous firearm.
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So he's not capable of doing his job. Will the prime minister sack him?
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Mr. Speaker. I always feel bad for the translators. They have to do this. They have to try and do this
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as the other person speaking, hearing it and saying it so that when it gets to the next person,
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they're ready to go. So I always get, they need a lot of credit for what they're doing here.
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Public safety are not binary choices. You could do both, Mr. Speaker. We can ensure that guns are
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off our streets by ensuring that people who are able to turn in their firearms are able to get
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compensated for those prohibited weapons. That is what we're doing with the launch of our gun buyback
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program today. We will continue to make smart criminal justice reforms to ensure that criminals
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are off our streets. And bail is tougher for repeat violent offenders, Mr. Speaker.
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The Honorable Leader of the Office. Oh, and by the way, the Liberals a few days ago voted down a
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conservative proposal on tightening up sentencing. So even that part's not true. They're going to make some
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adjustments, but they're not even going to be repealing Bill C-75, the actual thing that allows
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criminals to get same day automatic bail. I have to admit, Mr. Speaker, in all my years here,
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I've not seen this before. On Monday, a minister says that his program won't work. On Tuesday, he says
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he's going ahead with the program, a program that will take $750 million away from frontline border and
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police services to go after Grandpa Joe's hunting rifle, a waste of money that police say they won't
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implement and that the minister was caught on recording saying they will never implement. He
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even promised to bail his tenant out of jail if he breaks the law. When will the minute when will
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the Prime Minister fire this minister? The Honorable Elite and the Honorable Minister of Public Safety.
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Goodness, the Liberals are usually sometimes they'll swap someone else in like the House
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leader to stand up to take the question for someone if they're getting really beaten up on.
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You almost wonder here if the Liberals are letting Gary go down in flames. Maybe there's some personality
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conflict behind the scenes where people don't really like them very much. I've seen this happen
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before where just people don't get along and when you're floundering, you may be part of the same
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team, but they're not going to throw a lifeline out to you. Let's be clear. If Grandpa Joe is using
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AR-15s to go hunting, I think we have to have a much more serious conversation about hunting.
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What we're going forward, Mr. Speaker, are 2,500 prohibited weapons, AR-15s that are killing
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people around the world, including those in mass casualties in Canada, Mr. Speaker. If the Leader
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of the Opposition wants to have a real conversation about crime, he also has to have a real conversation
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about guns, Mr. Speaker. The Honorable Leader of the Opposition.
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Mr. Speaker, that Minister did have a real conversation about guns. He was caught on tape
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admitting that his program won't work because it will go after legitimate hunters and sports shooters
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rather than after the 80 percent of guns that are used in crime, which come illegally across the
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border. He admits that his $750 million program... Oh, and by the way, even the ones that are used
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from our side of the border, many of them are still not legally obtained. We're just saying that
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of the ones that are used, most of them are coming from the southern border when it comes to crimes.
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That doesn't even mean the rest of the 20 percent are law-abiding gun owners' firearms. It's people
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maybe with a stolen firearm, people who had gotten it through a port or some other facility if it's a
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makeshift weapon. That's representing also other portions of that 20 percent. And so when you actually
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get down to legal firearms being used in the commission of a crime, you're getting down to
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single percentages. And that story is not enough to justify banning firearms when we're not exactly a
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country with incredibly high amounts of firearm crime like the U.S. And even the U.S., it's not
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because they have the Second Amendment and that's why it's happening. It's because they don't enforce
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the law in many cities. So it doesn't matter what the laws are in those areas because usually they
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have tight gun control in places like New York City and Chicago, places like New Orleans. But it
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doesn't matter if you're not enforcing the law. Well, the law is not enforced.
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It won't work. He offered to bail his tenant out of jail if he breaks the rules. He lost track of 6,000
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foreign criminals in our country. He admits he doesn't know what a gun license is. More than half
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of Canadians don't feel safe under his watch. Will the Prime Minister do the only thing that will
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secure our country and fire this incompetent minister? The Honourable Minister of Public Safety.
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Mr. Speaker, you can't be serious about public safety if you're not serious about gun...
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Of course, now they bail out Gary Anasangari. Now we have Gumby himself, Sean Frazier, up to, you know,
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Mr. Speaker, you can't be serious about public safety if you're not serious about gun crime.
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My Honourable Colleague on the other side of the House raises concerns about the illegal
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flow of guns across the border. When he was in government, he made cuts that made it easier
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for illegal guns to come across the border. Mr. Speaker, we're going to be adding 1,000
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officers at the border. He also has campaigned on a commitment to legalize assault-style weapons
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and claims they're used for hunting. There are hunters in my community I'd love to introduce
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Oh my goodness, it's such a stupid talk. Oh my God, we can't shoot a deer with an AR-15?
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Well, that's not the only gun you guys banned. You even said you banned 2,500 firearms. And by the
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way, there still isn't a reason to ban the AR-15. It's a lower caliber rifle. It's semi-automatic.
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If that is enough in order to ban another firearm, you'd have to ban a lot of firearms because
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there's a lot of semi-automatic 22 caliber or a little bit larger firearms. It's so stupid.
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But now I need to move on to something else. And then I actually will be bringing out the
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whiteboard a little bit later. Or do I do that now? Guys, duty. It's a split decision right now.
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Okay, we're going to do the whiteboard right now. I brought this up while I was watching that.
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So I truly do the show live because I just thought of something I want to talk about.
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So we're bringing the whiteboard in here. So in the midst of all this, as the Liberals are trying
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to take pot shots at the Conservatives, they really do need to just take the L on this one.
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Just say, yeah, we messed up. Yeah, we messed up. And if Canadians are not on board with the firearms
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ban, well, I guess we're not going to force them into something they don't want. I need to show you
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guys. The crime and public safety question that was recently asked in the Abacus data poll.
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Who do you trust more on crime and public safety? I'll have you know, in this recent Abacus one,
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this one was better for the Liberals in previous polls. The previous poll had the Conservatives
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leading the Liberals by two or three percent. And then actually it flipped back the next week where
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the Liberals were leading by three percent. This one's a tie. So this is pretty even ground for the
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Conservatives and the Liberals with 40 percent saying they'd be voting Liberal, 40 percent saying
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they'd be voting Conservative. So this is not a poll that the makeup of the respondents is favoring
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one party disproportionately over the other. If anything, all polls tend to lean a little bit more
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Liberal simply because in terms of the ideology, you also have NDP voters and Bloc voters and Green
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voters in the mix as well. So Conservatives tend to always be a little bit of the minority.
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But in this poll, it asks people, who do you trust the most to take on the issue of, let's say,
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immigration first, just so that we can, you know, give you a little bit of a preamble to how bad
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these numbers are. On the issue of immigration, which we will be writing a little bit below here,
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Conservatives currently score 60 percent on immigration, with the Liberals only being trusted
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by the electorate by only 17 percent. This is immigration. Do you want to know what crime
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currently is? Because this is the issue that the Liberals are currently trying to combat the
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Conservatives on. The Liberals similarly just have 17 percent when it comes to how many Canadians out of
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the entire population of voters that was polled. This is including all the different ideologies. This
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isn't just saying Conservatives, who do you trust more, and they got 60 to 17. This is all voters,
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including Bloc, NDP, Green. In fact, I think on the immigration issue, what did the NDP get?
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NDP on this one got a whopping 4 percent. Not sure if that's on screen. Yes, it is. There you go.
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But let's get back up to crime and public safety. On this issue, the NDP get a big old 3. 3 percent of
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the electorate trust them the most on this particular issue. And the Conservatives are trusted by 66 percent
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of voters. Now, what lead is that over the Liberals? It's not quite 50, so I guess the Liberals ended up
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holding back the Conservatives there. But this is a plus 49 percent lead for the Conservatives on this
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particular issue. I think the Liberals could just concede on this one. They're not going to win,
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and nor is their confiscation of legally held weapons in Cape Breton going to be pushing them
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back up the rankings on this particular issue. On the border, the Conservatives are winning,
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so stop marketing the fact that you might add a thousand border security agents. One, you haven't
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done it yet. And two, goodness, they're still winning on this because they're tougher on the border than
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you guys are. And then on crime and public safety, it's nobody cares about the gun bans. They just
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care, do I feel safe going to work? They don't care, well, yeah, I did get chased down by a man with a
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syringe on a train platform, but, well, he wasn't carrying a gun. And so I guess I got to give the
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Liberals credit on that. Even though the Liberals have been so soft on crime, there is more gun violence
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in the country because of them. But now I want to move over to one more video, and then we will be
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done for this episode. It is the CBC News panel, the Power and Politics panel, specifically on Gary
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Amasangri. And I want to highlight what the Liberal on the show said, because I find what she said is
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almost the biggest indictment of him. She was trying to be supportive. She was trying to say
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nice things, trying to bail him out, but did not, let's say, do the best job that she could have.
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Speaking it, not necessarily great tenant relations there, but seriously, about the content of the
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conversation that was recorded, I mean, it's not a great look if you're the minister who has to sell
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this gun buyback program, which, if we're to believe the recording, will be announced tomorrow.
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Now he's on tape kind of undermining the whole thing. Not very helpful, is it?
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Yeah, I mean, I think, and it's not a song great, you know, I think naivete, he has put himself in an
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awkward situation. I think he, he said he meant known this person for like several years, I believe
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it was 16 years. He's known this tenant clearly, but didn't think he'd be recorded. Now, what I think
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happened is that he didn't realize he'd be unrecorded. It sounds...
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Can we use the proper language here? He didn't think he'd get caught. That's what happened.
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The whole point she is describing naivete in this situation would be not playing politics. Oh,
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just some guy I knew. He's been around for, you know, we've known each other for eight years.
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I can just tell you what I think. What do you think he was, he was going to give the lie answer
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to his tenant, and then he was going to say the truth in person? That's not how it usually works.
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If you say one thing in public and one thing behind the scenes, typically the behind the
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I only did when I heard some of the recording that it wasn't going well, the conversation,
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I mean, he mentioned the tenant that he has ARs, and I think he said what he needs to say
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to get out of a tricky situation. So not great, but I don't think it changes anything about the
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minister himself. I mean, I've known Minister Nansangri for many years. I've door knocked with
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him. He's doing what minister is supposed to, which is having difficult conversations with people
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who may feel differently about how you want to do policy, and he shouldn't be afraid in
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generally about how, about having those conversations we need to have, like.
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Who would ever hire this woman to be like a campaign manager again, if she's effectively
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just admitted, well, you know, lying is part of the job. Sometimes you go to a door and you
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just tell the person what they want to hear, and then you just go do whatever you're going
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to do. When you're basically saying that corruption is okay, ideological corruption, lying to the
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public is okay based on the circumstances, step away from the microphone.
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Politicians who are open to having conversations, even with those who disagree with him.
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So I don't think it looks good for him. I don't think it changes the integrity of the minister
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or the work he's doing on this, and I think he has the full confidence of the prime minister.
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Oh, it doesn't hurt him. He has full confidence of the prime minister going around either lying
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to people or telling the truth about the program sucking. Full, full, full trust. Full trust
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in the literal admitted liar or, you know, liar either in person or behind the scenes.
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Kate, in the recording, the minister says the police don't have the resources to enforce
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the gun buyback program in its entirety as it was kind of designed. And as I told you
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in the introduction there, that they're really pressing ahead with it because of electoral
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considerations that the Quebec caucus and others in the province of Quebec are pushing
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There's two issues here. There's the minister's conduct, and then there's the gun buyback program
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and the policy. On the minister's conduct, it's hard to claim political novice and amateur
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when he's been a sitting MP, I believe, since 2015. He was also the justice minister,
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I believe also the crown indigenous minister at one point in time, and is now serving in this
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cabinet. There's getting out of a sticky conversation, and there's undermining your entire
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government's, a core plank of your government's tough on crime legislation. So he should absolutely
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have known better in the course of that conversation. And unfortunately for the minister,
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it's not his first lapse in judgment. So we will see if there's any kind of consequences for that.
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Perhaps more gravely, he has undermined a very core pillar of the government's justice strategy
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and approach. He's admitting what many have already known for some time, that the gun buyback program
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will have precisely zero effect on gun violence in this country. And now it's going to be difficult
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for Canadians to take that program seriously and the aims of that seriously when the minister is out
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there undercutting his government's very policy, the one that he's supposed to be promoting himself.
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And see, that is the more fair take on this panel here. We don't need to listen to the whole thing.
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But yeah, that's pretty much it. The liberals are kind of damned if they do, damned if they don't
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at this point, because, well, already a lot of Canadians didn't like the gun buyback program.
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They didn't like the gun bans. But even then, now those who were still in favor of it, mostly around
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sort of like the city urban areas, even they are basically being told by the minister himself,
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you know, it's really not a good program. This isn't going to be doing anything. Obviously,
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the real thing we should be doing to crack down on crime is locking up criminals, which is right.
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There is no way of getting to the root causes of crime. Either you enforce the law or you don't
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enforce the law. There's no cute end run you can do by going to legal gun owners and trying to take
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their guns away to solve crime. There is this great saying I know from one of my favorite YouTubers,
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Actual Justice Warrior, where whenever people start talking about root causes of crime,
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he always goes on a rant about how we need to get a we need to get a height and weight on poverty so
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we can go and arrest poverty instead of the man who's actually knocking over the liquor store.
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Criminals are not just Aladdin running around stealing bread for hungry children. They're criminals
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and they should be put in prison. And it's nice to know that the public safety minister sort of
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understands this, but he's a big enough public political hack. He's not going to do anything
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with that more coherent worldview that he seems to have behind the scenes. But yeah, so that should
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be it for this video, guys. I think with the polling, we are going to see a slippage for the
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liberals again. Now, none of these are death blows. Even Aircanda wasn't a death blow. The bad,
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the bad, like messaging and negotiating on the trade deal, that's not a death blow for the liberals.
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But a government can also go down with a thousand cuts. And I think right now, the trade, the budget,
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the deficit, this gun fiasco, and a lot of other stuff is just creating the impression that Mark
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Carney isn't actually as good as he sold himself as, which is true. He really isn't. And I think even
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if you are an elbows up liberal voter, obviously, there are the Laura Babcock hardcores who are never
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going to turn on the party. But for those who may be switched from conservative to liberal or don't
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typically vote and then came out and voted liberal, if you're watching the news these days, even if
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you're watching the CBC just on that panel alone, you will be getting the impression that at very least
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the people that Mark Carney's surrounding himself with are not particularly competent. And then we
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know in the next year, we may have up to four or five liberal MPs leaving the party, resigning
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their seats to go do something else, whether it's Nate Erskine-Smith running for Ontario liberal
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leadership, or Chrystia Freeland seemingly just being sick of Mark Carney and not wanting to be
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in cabinet anymore, as well as some other people as well. But anyways, so with that being said,
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