Carney stands by Liberal gun ban, embattled public safety minister
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Opposition Conservatives have called for Carney to fire the public safety minister over leaked comments about the Liberals’ gun buyback program.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing by both the Liberals’ gun buyback plan and his embattled public safety minister who was caught on tape questioning the program.
Speaking in the House of Commons Wednesday, Carney resisted continued calls from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to fire Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree.
Anandasangaree found himself in hot water this week after leaked audio of the minister questioning the efficacy and motivation of the Liberals’ gun buyback program surfaced online, leading to the Conservatives’ push to have him removed from his post.
“His own minister of public safety says this government is doing it wrong. He was caught on tape saying the program won’t work,” Poilievre said during question period.
“The police say they won’t implement it, the minister says it’s a bad idea, but they’re only doing it for political reasons.”
“What the minister of public safety is doing, is doing it right, he’s correcting an inefficient system to provide Canadians with fair compensation” for their firearms, Carney shot back.
“What this government is doing is providing fair compensation for Canadians to return illegal firearms, illegal assault rifles.”
The program, first announced under then-prime minister Justin Trudeau, banned more than 1,500 “assault-style” firearms and variants in 2020 after a mass shooting in Nova Scotia killed 22 people. Owners of the proposed banned firearms would be eligible for compensation.
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