00:31:01.760Assault-style firearms compensation program, with pilot projects happening in a few areas
00:31:08.860around the country, notably in Nova Scotia, keeping communities safe. As part of its long-standing
00:31:18.060commitment to tackling gun violence in Canadian communities, the government of Canada has banned
00:31:22.280more than 2,500 makes and models of assault-style firearms since May of 2020. Anyway, they say
00:31:30.960participating in this program is voluntary, for now. Remember, it always starts off like that.
00:31:35.740However, businesses, except those with required registration certificates and specific privileges on their license, must dispose of or permanently deactivate their assault-style firearms before the amnesty period expires October 30th of 2026 or risk criminal liability for the illegal possession of a prohibited firearm.
00:31:57.200Businesses will be notified when the program reopens.
00:32:00.500Now, that amnesty period has been extended.
00:32:05.740by six months. And that's just a recent development. Why? Because our minister of
00:32:12.800justice, Gary alphabet was caught on tape and that tape was leaked a couple of weeks ago saying he
00:32:18.920doesn't think he was talking with a buddy of his guys known over 20 years, but he said he doesn't
00:32:23.700think this program is going to make a difference one bit. Of course, the conservatives, even the
00:32:28.540left-wing corporate media jumped on it. And here he is trying to explain that conversation,
00:32:33.580that leaked take conversation with uh what's your name from ctv take your characterization as you
00:32:41.320know what happened the aim of it being too abstract and certainly the leak came from an organization
00:32:46.640that doesn't want to see this go ahead but you have done you have not refuted the content of
00:32:51.240what was leaked and that's why i asked you about whether or not you're going to resign and i'll ask
00:32:55.160more specifically what informs that question you told the the individual in that conversation that
00:33:00.360you can't explain the logic of the buyback program. If the Public Safety
00:33:04.900Minister in charge of implementing the program can't explain its justification,
00:33:09.240why should Canadians accept one? So this is a conversation that took, it was a
00:33:14.08020-minute conversation, 20 minutes or so conversation. It was recorded without my
00:33:18.740knowledge. Notwithstanding that, much of the conversation were part of previous
00:33:24.720conversations I've had with this individual. The logic of this I know he
00:33:28.800does not accept um i have tried to explain this in the past uh he we have not been able to agree
00:33:34.300on it so that's why i dismissed it as such where i was misguided there was two uh times at one
00:33:40.800point i said i will bail him out and another time i said i will compensate him obviously well you
00:33:45.340see now he's lying because there is no logic to this he even said it himself during this phone
00:33:51.520call saying no i was just kidding i've known the guy for 20 years i'm only kidding and things would
00:33:56.860be different you know maybe if you were recorded having a private conversation with an old friend
00:34:01.520gary alphabet how this guy still has a job i don't know you see there in just uh in a private
00:34:09.680conversation not to be taken at face value but you're a minister with all due respect you're a
00:34:14.400minister of the crown who is in charge of public safety the public safety of this country why would
00:34:19.960you make light of a program you know is fraught with controversy actually this is a 20 minute
00:34:24.420conversation i had with someone i've known for many years i'm sure if you were recorded in a
00:34:29.480private conversation there may be things that you would have said or things the way you say it that
00:34:33.380may be different than in a public total wrong line of questioning there by the way like she should
00:34:43.040have said and i watched the entire thing we only gave you a small portion of it she should have
00:34:47.660said something like do you believe because what you said in the in the leaked recording do you
00:34:53.180believe this gun buyback program has a chance do you believe that it has a chance or do you believe
00:35:00.960what you said in the private conversation you thought nobody else was ever going to hear
00:35:06.080of course it never had a chance there is no logic behind it gary that's why your friend doesn't
00:35:13.760accept the whole thing there's no logic illegal guns are the problem always has been always will
00:35:23.940be however the gun buyback program may be coming to an end mario for the north has been doing some
00:35:31.700digging on this king news i received a note from what i would say is an extremely credible source
00:35:37.240that analysts have all received an email that the gun buyback program that the liberals are trying
00:35:42.760to impose on law-abiding citizens is going to come to an end. And for those unfamiliar with the
00:35:48.320program, it was doomed to fail anyways. The majority of the guns seized during crime, they're not from
00:35:54.380law-abiding Canadian owners. They're coming illegally from the U.S. In fact, in 2024 alone, the numbers
00:36:01.280were almost 90%. That's what the Toronto Police Services traced back to America. Programs always
00:36:07.820face criticism because of this. It was never meant to keep Canadians safe. Even the OPP said they're
00:36:14.040not going to participate in this. What the government ultimately did is they listed a bunch
00:36:19.640of firearms including very small caliber .22LRs listed them as prohibited which means they are now
00:36:27.380illegal. They had the audacity to say we're not forcing anyone to give their guns back to the
00:36:33.040government and we'll pay you for it but if you don't do it you're committing a crime. That's
00:36:37.120literally the definition of forcing Canadians to do something they don't want to do. Anyways the
00:36:42.380good news is analysts have already begun receiving emails that this program will be dying soon. I have
00:36:48.920a feeling that their test pilot completely failed. No one was participating in it and if they don't
00:36:54.180have provincial support to actually seize these firearms from the millions of Canadians even if
00:37:00.000it's in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands it doesn't matter. The government at
00:37:04.820the federal level needs the help and support of the provincial governments who don't want anything
00:37:10.040to do with this they have real crime to fight i believe it was the president of the toronto
00:37:15.040police services i remember exactly but he said basically that this whole thing will not keep
00:37:21.080citizens safe yeah but the liberal mp or one of the liberal mps behind this thing got his brother
00:37:31.580in law, the chief of police of Cape Breton, I think it's Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to buy into
00:37:36.200this and be a kind of a national public spokesman for it. And in Nova Scotia, I mean, Mario talks
00:37:43.120about premiers having to get behind this. All right. The premier of Nova Scotia made walking
00:37:48.680in the woods illegal. Do you think he would get behind it? Yeah. He calls himself conservative,
00:37:55.380but is he really? Now, speaking of conservatives or progressive conservatives, a new
00:38:01.200progressive conservative government has been elected in newfoundland we're going to get to
00:38:05.420that in just a second more federal for you now remember andrew lawton he's a he's an mp now
00:38:12.240from london ontario used to be a journalist on juno news before that true north i like andrew