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Trudeau government bans even more guns, wants to send them to Ukraine

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

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.  

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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Canadian Police Raid Sophisticated Vancouver Fentanyl Labs, But Insist Millions of Pills Not Destined for U.S.

Published on April 11, 2025

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Sam Cooper

Mounties say labs outfitted with high-grade chemistry equipment and a trained chemist reveal transnational crime groups are advancing in technical sophistication and drug production capacity

Amid a growing trade war between Washington and Beijing, Canada—targeted alongside Mexico and China for special tariffs related to Chinese fentanyl supply chains—has dismantled a sophisticated network of fentanyl labs across British Columbia and arrested an academic lab chemist, the RCMP said Thursday.

At a press conference in Vancouver, senior investigators stood behind seized lab equipment and fentanyl supplies, telling reporters the operation had prevented millions of potentially lethal pills from reaching the streets.

“This interdiction has prevented several million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl from being produced and distributed across Canada,” said Cpl. Arash Seyed. But the presence of commercial-grade laboratory equipment at each of the sites—paired with the arrest of a suspect believed to have formal training in chemistry—signals an evolution in the capabilities of organized crime networks, with “progressively enhanced scientific and technical expertise among transnational organized crime groups involved in the production and distribution of illicit drugs,” Seyed added.

This investigation is ongoing, while the seized drugs, precursor chemicals, and other evidence continue to be processed, police said.

Recent Canadian data confirms the country has become an exporter of fentanyl, and experts identify British Columbia as the epicenter of clandestine labs supplied by Chinese precursors and linked to Mexican cartel distributors upstream.

In a statement that appears politically responsive to the evolving Trump trade threats, Assistant Commissioner David Teboul said, “There continues to be no evidence, in this case and others, that these labs are producing fentanyl for exportation into the United States.”

In late March, during coordinated raids across the suburban municipalities of Pitt Meadows, Mission, Aldergrove, Langley, and Richmond, investigators took down three clandestine fentanyl production sites.

The labs were described by the RCMP as “equipped with specialized chemical processing equipment often found in academic and professional research facilities.” Photos released by authorities show stainless steel reaction vessels, industrial filters, and what appear to be commercial-scale tablet presses and drying trays—pointing to mass production capabilities.

The takedown comes as Canada finds itself in the crosshairs of intensifying geopolitical tension.

Fentanyl remains the leading cause of drug-related deaths in Canada, with toxic supply chains increasingly linked to hybrid transnational networks involving Chinese chemical brokers and domestic Canadian producers.

RCMP said the sprawling B.C. lab probe was launched in the summer of 2023, with teams initiating an investigation into the importation of unregulated chemicals and commercial laboratory equipment that could be used for synthesizing illicit drugs including fentanyl, MDMA, and GHB.

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2025 Federal Election

Carney needs to cancel gun ban and buyback

Published on April 10, 2025

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 Gage Haubrich

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Liberal Leader Mark Carney to stop the gun ban and buyback after he announced he would  continue with the scheme.

“Carney needs to scrap this plan and stop wasting taxpayer’s money on it,” said Gage Haubrich, CTF Prairie Director. “Planning to spend potentially billions of dollars on a program that is not going to make Canadians safer is a waste of money.

“Carney needs to be cancelling this wasteful plan, not doubling down on it.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to get rid of Ottawa’s gun bans.

The government said the buyback would cost taxpayers $200 million in 2019. Only buying back the guns could cost up to $756 million, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Government documents show that the buyback is now likely to cost almost $2 billion.

The banned gun list includes more than 2,000 different types of firearms.

Every year since the gun ban was announced in 2020, violent gun crime in Canada has increased.

New Zealand conducted a similar, but more extensive, gun ban and buyback in 2019. New Zealand had 1,216 violent firearm offenses in 2023. That’s 349 more offences than the year before the buyback.

Experts also agree that the buyback won’t make Canadians any safer.

The National Police Federation, the union representing the RCMP, says Ottawa’s buyback “diverts extremely important personnel, resources, and funding away from addressing the more immediate and growing threat of criminal use of illegal firearms.”

“Buyback programs are largely ineffective at reducing gun violence, in large part because the people who participate in such programs are not likely to use those guns to commit violence,” said University of Toronto professor Jooyoung Lee

“Experts say that this gun ban and buyback won’t do anything to make Canadians safer,” Haubrich said. “Carney needs to listen to the experts and commit to cancelling this scheme before it costs taxpayers any more money.”

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