Canadian Provinces Respond to Federal Gun Confiscation Plea: Pound Sand

[Paladin]

Canadian Provinces Respond to Federal Gun Confiscation Plea: Pound Sand

“Alberta is not legally obligated and will not offer any provincial resources to the Federal Government as it seeks to confiscate lawfully acquired firearms,”

Ontario Provincial Police are paid with Ontario tax dollars to serve Ontarians, not Ottawa’s lackeys.”

Sounds like Alberta and Ontario are both far smarter and more honest than Trudeau!

[srothstein]

Just for technical accuracy, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan provinces had taken official positions against having the police participate in this program. But the quote from Ontario was from the sport shooting group in the province urging the public to contact their representatives to tell them to resist.

So, at least as of right now, Ontario's government is not smarter than their national government.

[chasfm11]

Just for technical accuracy, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan provinces had taken official positions against having the police participate in this program. But the quote from Ontario was from the sport shooting group in the province urging the public to contact their representatives to tell them to resist.

So, at least as of right now, Ontario's government is not smarter than their national government.

While my time there was limited, I have spent some in both Ontario and Alberta and gotten a chance to talk to citizens there. Toronto and Ottawa are bastions of Liberal thinking. The Canadian people there seem to be as over-run by the big city politics as any similar Liberal center in the U.S. but the opposition forces are even more silent there than here. Alberta, on the other hand, is more like Texas. I spent time in Calgary and felt very much at home there. Ft. Worth' s current hard Left lean aside, Calgary and Ft. Worth have a lot of things in common and those outside of government in both places seem to share more philosophy than differ on it. I can definitely see a "pound sound" response from Calgary residents. Toronto, not so much.

[Ruark]

Sounds like Ottawa is Canada's California, and Trudeau is their Gavin Newsom.

[K.Mooneyham]

After reading through the statements by the authorities in those three provinces, it would seem that at least someone has a grasp of the concept of logistics. Logistics is a lot more than moving some packages around the country.

Also, those sorts of garbage "laws" (in this case, a draconian pronouncement from a dictatorial federal government) showcase the difference between enforcing laws which are malam in se versus malam prohibitum. The first broad category should always be the focus of any law enforcement agency, and the latter enforced only in direct service of the first category. In other words, going after gang members who have committed murder, and disarming them because they used weapons in the commission of violent crimes, as an example. As another example, pulling someone over for whipping around at high speed in heavy traffic versus pulling someone over who's doing a steady five over on an empty back highway on a sunny day.

[BigGuy]

Sounds like Ottawa is Canada's California, and Trudeau is their Gavin Newsom.