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Trudeau government bans even more guns, wants to send them to Ukraine
From LifeSiteNews
Defence minister Bill Blair announced the government ‘will begin working with the Canadian companies that have weapons that Ukraine needs’ in order ‘to get these weapons out of Canada and into the hands of the Ukrainians.’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has added even more models to his firearms ban with the plan of sending the confiscated guns to Ukraine.
On December 5, Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc announced that an additional 324 firearms have been added to the 1,500 models which were banned for private use in 2020 under Bill C-21.
“These firearms can no longer be legally used, sold or imported in Canada,” LeBlanc told reporters.
According to the Trudeau government’s plan, the confiscated guns will be sent to Ukraine for military use.
“Firearms designed for the battlefield plainly do not belong in our communities,” Defence Minister Bill Blair stated. “Too often, these types of weapons have been used to commit some of the worst atrocities Canada has ever witnessed.”
“The Department of National Defence will begin working with the Canadian companies that have weapons that Ukraine needs and which are already eligible for the assault firearm compensation program in order to get these weapons out of Canada and into the hands of the Ukrainians,” he explained.
Trudeau’s gun grab was first announced after a deadly mass shooting in Nova Scotia in May 2020. After the tragic event, Trudeau banned over 1,500 “military-style assault firearms” with a plan to begin buying them back from owners.
However, Statistics Canada data shows that most violent gun crimes in the country last year were not committed at the hands of legal gun owners but by those who obtained the weapons illegally.
Late last year, the Trudeau government extended the amnesty deadline for legal gun owners until October 30, 2025. It should be noted that this is around the same time a federal election will take place.
The Canadian government’s controversial gun grab Bill C-21, which bans many types of guns, including handguns, and mandates a buyback program, became law on December 14, 2023, after senators voted 60-24 in favor of the bill.
In May 2023, Bill C-21 passed in the House of Commons. After initially denying the bill would impact hunters. Trudeau eventually admitted that C-21 would indeed ban certain types of hunting rifles.
Following this, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, and New Brunswick condemned the legislation, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith promising she would strengthen the gun rights of Albertans because of the proposal.
The Trudeau government’s desire to confiscate law-abiding citizens’ guns to give them to Ukraine follows after years of funneling taxpayer dollars to the embattled nation.
In July, Trudeau announced that he would send another $500 million to Ukraine as it continues its war against Russia, despite an ongoing decline in Canada’s military recruitment.
According to his 2024 budget, Trudeau plans to spend $8.1 billion over five years, starting in 2024-25, and $73.0 billion over 20 years on the Department of National Defence.
Interestingly, $8.1 billion divided equally over five years is $1,620,000 each year for the Canadian military. In effect, Trudeau’s pledge of $500 million means he is spending just under a third on Ukraine compared to what he plans to spend on Canada.
Indeed, Trudeau seems reluctant to spend money on the Canadian military, as evidenced when Canadian troops in Latvia were forced to purchase their own helmets and food when the Trudeau government failed to provide proper supplies.
Weeks later, Trudeau lectured the same troops on “climate change” and disinformation.
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Pro-freedom group warns Liberal bill could secretly cut off Canadians’ internet access
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“The minister could order this dissident’s internet and phone services be cut off and require that decision remain secret”
Free speech advocates have warned that the Liberals’ cybersecurity bill would allow them to block any individual’s internet access by secret order.
During an October 30 Public Safety committee meeting in the House of Commons, Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) counsel Josh Dehaas called for Liberals to rewrite Bill C-8, which would allow the government to secretly cut off Canadians access to the internet to mediate “any threat” to the telecommunications system.
“It is dangerous to civil liberties to allow the minister the power to cut off individual Canadians without proper due process and keep that secret,” Dehaas testified.
“Consider for example a protestor who the minister believes ‘may’ engage in a distributed denial of service attack, which is a common form of civil disobedience employed by political activists,” he warned.
“The minister could order this dissident’s internet and phone services be cut off and require that decision remain secret,” Dehaas continued, adding that the legislation does not require the government to obtain a warrant.
In response, Liberal MP Marianne Dandurand claimed that the legislation is aimed to protect the government form cyberattacks, not to limit freedom of speech. However, Dehaas pointed out that the vague phrasing of the legislation allows Liberals to censor Canadians to counter “any threat” to the telecommunications system.
Bill C-8, which is now in its second reading in the House of Commons, was introduced in June by Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree and contains a provision in which the federal government could stop “any specified person” from accessing the internet.
The federal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney claims that the bill is a way to stop “unprecedented cyber-threats.”
The bill, as written, claims that the government would need the power to cut someone off from the internet, as it could be “necessary to do so to secure the Canadian telecommunications system against any threat, including that of interference, manipulation, disruption, or degradation.”
Many Canadians, including Conservative MPs and freedom groups, have condemned the legislation, along with several other new Liberal bills which aim to censor internet content as well as go after people’s ability to speak their minds.
“Experts and civil society have warned that the legislation would confer ministerial powers that could be used to deliberately or inadvertently compromise the security of encryption standards within telecommunications networks that people, governments, and businesses across Canada rely upon, every day,” the Canadian Civil Liberties Association wrote in a recent press release.
Similarly, Canada’s own intelligence commissioner has warned that the bill, if passed as is, could potentially be unconstitutional, as it would allow for warrantless seizure of a person’s sensitive information.
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