{"id":114920,"date":"2026-02-02T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=114920"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:47:25","slug":"114920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=114920","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Half of Canada Says \u2018No\u2019 to Gun Buyback<\/a><\/p>\n

By Dave Workman<\/p>\n

Virtually half of Canada\u2014several provinces and two territories\u2014are saying \u201cNo\u201d to the federal government\u2019s multi-million-dollar buyback scheme, with the\u00a0National Post<\/a>\u00a0reporting this week that the government of\u00a0Newfoundland<\/a> is also refusing to participate.<\/p>\n

According to the report, \u201cThis now means that half the provinces, along with two of the three territorial governments, have declined to participate in the buyback: only Quebec, British Columbia, the Maritimes and Nunavut are left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Extending support across the border for this stunning rejection is the\u00a0Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms<\/a>, based in Bellevue, Washington. Calling the proposed buyback \u201ccompensated confiscation,\u201d CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb declared in a statement to the media, \u201cThis is a remarkable\u2014and welcome\u2014wake-up call to Canada\u2019s liberal national government, and it is long overdue. Gun control in Canada has crossed the line when it pushes a massive \u2018buyback,\u2019 which is really nothing more than compensated confiscation. What the governments in those provinces, and the territories are saying on behalf of the citizens is that this massive gun control scheme is a non-starter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada does not have the equivalent of the Second Amendment, so there is no recognized fundamental right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

But governments in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon have rejected the plan. Gottlieb noted that\u2019s virtually half of Canada\u2019s land mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people in those provinces need guns for their very survival,\u201d he said, \u201cand their voices are being heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement issued by Newfoundland earlier this week, the government said, \u201cGovernment has raised concerns about the program\u2019s practicality, the strain it could place on policing resources, and whether it would deliver meaningful improvements in public safety for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. The Provincial Government believes police resources should be directed toward tackling violent crime, drug-related activity, and repeat offenders \u2014 not toward measures that risk targeting law-abiding residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The central government in Ottawa has a list hundreds of guns it wants people to turn in, and according to the National Post story, some $250 million has been allocated to compensate gun owners for their surrendered firearms.<\/p>\n

But rural Canadians\u2014except in British Columbia\u2014are having none of it.<\/p>\n

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham explained, \u201cAs Premier, I call on the Federal Government to further engage provinces and territories on this issue, and to re-allocate the resources allotted for this program toward reducing crime, drug-related violence, and repeat offenders. Decisions are being made at a federal level that are isolated from legitimate civilian use of firearms. The Federal Government should focus on criminals, not law-abiding hunters and our way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Half of Canada Says \u2018No\u2019 to Gun Buyback By Dave Workman Virtually half of Canada\u2014several provinces and two territories\u2014are saying \u201cNo\u201d to the federal government\u2019s multi-million-dollar buyback scheme, with the\u00a0National Post\u00a0reporting this week that the government of\u00a0Newfoundland is also refusing to participate. According to the report, \u201cThis now means that half the provinces, along with … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114921,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920\/revisions\/114921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}