The Government only have enough money to pay for a fraction of the firearms that were banned.
„Compensation payments will be issued within 45 business days of a successful validation of the outlawed firearm. The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.“
Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl on
With that short of a window, it’s very likely that systems will get strained to breaking point and if there’s no compensation possible, I suspect many NR firearms owners will just not comply. They are relying on FOMO to drive participation and I genuinely don’t think it’s going to work the way they want it to.
Pathos886 on
So they only have money to pay for less firearms than what they prohibited.
icedesparten on
This is the same program that the federal Public Safety Minister that was caught on hot mike stating that the program was a waste of time and money, and they were only pushing forward because it bought them votes in Quebec.
I really don’t see how this brings any benefit to Canadian society.
* The program is targeted exclusively at properly licensed Canadians, and at firearms that are not any measurably different from firearms still on the market.
* Criminals largely use handguns smuggled across our southern border. The firearms banned are not typically used in criminal activities.
* Suicide and theft are unaffected, as these bans are unlikely to affect an individuals entire collection, and they will still be licensed afterwards and can buy more firearms anyways.
* The cost will be exorbitant, currently it’s been at least 750 million dollars, and will easily blow into the billions by the time it’s complete. For reference, the Long Gun Registry was supposed to cost 2 million, but the final price tag before it was shut down was 2 **billion**, and that’s just a simple registry.
* Those that participate are not going to get a fair compensation, if they get compensation at all. One participant got roughly 1/4 of what was promised online, with no means of recourse. As well, the amount of money for compensation is limited, and once it runs out, nobody gets any compensation.
I really don’t understand how anyone can support this. With multiple provinces and territories actively opposing it, the chances of success (as in all or most firearms are collected) are slim to none.
Krazee9 on
>The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.
They banned somewhere close to a million guns, and are trying to get away with only paying for 1/10th of them. This program is expropriation, not paying compensation for expropriated property is illegal.
>After the March 31 deadline, firearms owners who have not submitted a declaration can’t participate in the program
But you can keep having the gun until Oct 30. They’re really trying to drum up FOMO on this in hopes that people rush to sign up and provide them a registry of all the banned non-restricted firearms that they don’t know the whereabouts of.
What a stupid fucking waste of time and money. What are they going to do when this gets the same 12.5% interest as the failed „pilot“ in Cape Breton?
Anyone who says that Carney is a „pragmatic“ leader can go to hell, given that not only is he keeping Trudeau’s worst ministers in cabinet, he’s keeping some of Trudeau’s worst ideological bullshit around, and he’s got an anti-gun lobbyist as an MP.
CS1_Chris on
I was just on my way to surrender my guns but they fell in the river.
JCbfd on
And the total bullshit continues from the worst govt in canadian history. Mass Non-compliance all the way!! Fuck these idiots.
infinus5 on
What a total waste of time and energy.
oioioifuckingoi on
How many people a year are killed by guns that are legally owned but now on the ban list? Is it not close to zero? What a monumental waste of money.
BigButtBeads on
A remarkable failure as a pilot program
Liberal Party way is to just full steam ahead with your tax dollars
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sevvii on
This doesn’t seem like the best idea.
PrideOfEverblight on
Maybe not a great time for Canadians to have less guns… 🤷🏻
Remarkable_Vanilla34 on
„Compensation payments will be issued within 45 business days of a successful validation of the outlawed firearm. The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.“
So their goals are now even less guns nationally and they have admitted they don’t plan to compensate everyone.
The LPC is clearly trying to get people to participate they can get numbers and declare this a success. There is far, far more than 136k prohibited fire arms in Canada. They just want to make this program go away.
Here’s the good news, they gave a ridiculous short window for participating, 6 weeks got 12% in Cape Breton, maybe they will get 13% nation wide lol.
Non compliance is a valid and legal form of protest, they are clearly desperate for anything they can take as a win and gas light the public about. Don’t take the bait and participate.
Spider-King-270 on
Minister said compensation isn’t guaranteed! “First come first served”
Great
usernamedmannequin on
Just fucking backtrack already
Next_Chicken9739 on
Coming for the ‚ruggers‘.
This is so far beyond incompetence no matter what political party you align with.
This sets a very bad precedent for property rights and will no doubt stoke the separation fire while they should be focusing on unity.
bcbuddy on
When people tell you that they’re a „red Tory“ or „fiscal Conservatives“ that voted for Carney and say they hate government waste point them to this.
They’re full of it
toilet_for_shrek on
And we get zero info on how they intend to enforce this.
DoctorLocal4493 on
This whole program is a complete failure, joke and waste of hundreds of millions of tax dollars.
linkass on
>which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.
Which is not even the 150k number that they claimed from the first round
>The documents also confirm the amnesty period for possessing banned guns will end on Oct. 30, 2026. Afterwards, anyone in possession **“will be breaking the law and could face criminal prosecution.“**
Lets here from all the people on here telling us it was „voluntary“ and I am sure she had quite the smile on her face when she announced that part
CamberMacRorie on
Hard to take a government that is plowing through with this program seriously.
ghost_n_the_shell on
So there you have it, for anyone thick enough not to understand it.
This isn’t voluntary.
They are seizing formerly lawful property that was obtained by jumping through the very same governments laws set in place to obtain them. They were vetted for criminal records and were deemed safe to own them.
Want compensation?
Oh no. Thats not guaranteed. Maybe. Maybe you’ll get it. If you hop to it quickly enough.
This is ideology through and through.
They will be making former law abiding citizens criminals with the stroke of a pen.
Acceptable_Visit_115 on
In 2020 the estimated restricted firearms for buyback was ~100k. And a large amount of non-restricted firearms.
The 2024/25 ones are mostly NR as well (except M1 Carbines and very few short-barreled PCCs).
The allocated budget is for ~130k firearms, which means it is NO WHERE NEAR the amount required to compensate everyone. It might be enough for the 2020 list, but the 2024/25 lists were far, far more expansive due to their NR nature. Industry estimates places it at anywhere from 300k to 2 million.
This is not how a buyback program works. They kept talking about how good the Australian buyback worked – that’s because they had near unlimited funding and paid over market price for every and each firearm. This is NOT the case for Canada.
And Public Safety knows that. That’s why they are using FOMO tactics while explicitly stating that compensation is not guaranteed.
bristow84 on
What a fucking joke. They’re taking property without fully intending to pay for everything they take. This isn’t a buyback program, it’s confiscation, pure and simple, all to appease uninformed voters who have no idea on the firearms laws and enforcement that were already in place.
Hardhead13 on
60 days to register whatever banned guns I might or might not own, so they can be seized later. Or 287 days to keep my mouth shut, and hope this whole idiotic farce goes away.
Screw that. I’m not giving them a shopping list. If I wanted the money more than I wanted the guns, I’d have never bought them in the first place.
Remarkable_Vanilla34 on
DO NOT COMPLY.
Don’t fall for it. They are trying to make people panic and run to hand stuff in hoping to be one of the lucky few. It’s ridiculous and so disrespectful to treat innocent people this way. Make them play a game in hopes of getting compensated for their own property.
Here’s the thing. No one needs to comply until October, its a valid and legal protest, and they will extend the amnesty again, they are trying to talk tough and make people panic, but that amnesty isn’t going anywhere, its been renewed ober and over already, and they had to do the same thing with the LGR.
And they have dug themselves into hole now that if this does reach the Supreme Court of Canada, the feds can’t stick to the original plan and the higher Court might have a different opinion under different circumstances now.
Lastly, their will be an election if Carney can’t secure a majority through floor crossing, most likely in the next year. No minority has ever survived a full term and they average 18 months. Even having an election brings the possibility of disrupting this program.
Draugakjallur on
Clever trick.
Only offer a quarter of the compensation in the hopes of making gun owners rush to try and get compensation first „within 45 days“. After the money runs out the government has everyones name, address, and all the firearms they registered. Talk about incriminating yourself.
NurdleTeck on
We need more guns, not less.
sleipnir45 on
I like the speech at the end of the press conference, paraphrasing, of course!.
‚ Now, don’t go thinking you can hand in your firearms for compensation then can go out and buy another firearm because we might ban that too‘
MegaCockInhaler on
“Afterwards, anyone in possession „will be breaking the law and could face criminal prosecution.“”
Come and prosecute me. Oh wait, my province isn’t prosecuting shit. Whelp better luck next time liberals
Tacticaloperator051 on
Welp, let’s see if this failed project can really hold 2.3 million legal canadian into prison just becuase Natalie Provost personally hate them. Let’s see.
northern225 on
It’s not actually a buy back though. Many gun owners would take a huge hit financially as they are not being reimbursed dollar for dollar. Instead they have to give up a hunting rifle worth thousands and then go buy one now considered approved with money out of their own pocket.
Lumindan on
The guy who has the royalties to that stock photo must be making bank.
The CBC and like every other outlet LOVES that stock photo.
Old-Show9198 on
This is such bullshit. Don’t give in people. Make them come and take them from you. It’s my property I don’t have to bring them to you. Obviously keep it peaceful and don’t hurt anyone but make a stand as much as you as possible. This is the first deep cut to our rights and they need to understand we won’t comply.
ramdom-ink on
Maybe not the best time to be disarming Canadian citizens…just sayin’.
chess_the_cat on
Compensation not guaranteed. Highly doubtful any local police are going to do anything about trigger locked plinksters in safes. No reason to comply. They can’t arrest everyone.
CantFeelMyToesAgain on
Like fuck anyone’s complying with this lmao
goshathegreat on
Where are all the people that said Carney would be fiscally responsible? $750 million for a “voluntary” program that turns legal gun owners to criminals if they don’t comply, is certainly not fiscally responsible…
This program isn’t designed to stop gun crime or protect people, it is designed solely to appease Nathalie Provost and her lobbyist group PolySeSouvient. It is disgusting that her personal vendetta against law abiding firearm owners, who have committed no crimes, is responsible for this egregious waste of money. This money could be used to stop smuggling, which is the real root of the firearm problem in Canada, but Provost won’t admit that since she believes only legal firearms and their owners kill people.
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Strategically done on a Saturday morning no less.
Doubling down on stupidity at great expense.
Mass non-compliance is the only solution.
The Government only have enough money to pay for a fraction of the firearms that were banned.
„Compensation payments will be issued within 45 business days of a successful validation of the outlawed firearm. The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.“
With that short of a window, it’s very likely that systems will get strained to breaking point and if there’s no compensation possible, I suspect many NR firearms owners will just not comply. They are relying on FOMO to drive participation and I genuinely don’t think it’s going to work the way they want it to.
So they only have money to pay for less firearms than what they prohibited.
This is the same program that the federal Public Safety Minister that was caught on hot mike stating that the program was a waste of time and money, and they were only pushing forward because it bought them votes in Quebec.
I really don’t see how this brings any benefit to Canadian society.
* The program is targeted exclusively at properly licensed Canadians, and at firearms that are not any measurably different from firearms still on the market.
* Criminals largely use handguns smuggled across our southern border. The firearms banned are not typically used in criminal activities.
* Suicide and theft are unaffected, as these bans are unlikely to affect an individuals entire collection, and they will still be licensed afterwards and can buy more firearms anyways.
* The cost will be exorbitant, currently it’s been at least 750 million dollars, and will easily blow into the billions by the time it’s complete. For reference, the Long Gun Registry was supposed to cost 2 million, but the final price tag before it was shut down was 2 **billion**, and that’s just a simple registry.
* Those that participate are not going to get a fair compensation, if they get compensation at all. One participant got roughly 1/4 of what was promised online, with no means of recourse. As well, the amount of money for compensation is limited, and once it runs out, nobody gets any compensation.
I really don’t understand how anyone can support this. With multiple provinces and territories actively opposing it, the chances of success (as in all or most firearms are collected) are slim to none.
>The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.
They banned somewhere close to a million guns, and are trying to get away with only paying for 1/10th of them. This program is expropriation, not paying compensation for expropriated property is illegal.
>After the March 31 deadline, firearms owners who have not submitted a declaration can’t participate in the program
But you can keep having the gun until Oct 30. They’re really trying to drum up FOMO on this in hopes that people rush to sign up and provide them a registry of all the banned non-restricted firearms that they don’t know the whereabouts of.
What a stupid fucking waste of time and money. What are they going to do when this gets the same 12.5% interest as the failed „pilot“ in Cape Breton?
Anyone who says that Carney is a „pragmatic“ leader can go to hell, given that not only is he keeping Trudeau’s worst ministers in cabinet, he’s keeping some of Trudeau’s worst ideological bullshit around, and he’s got an anti-gun lobbyist as an MP.
I was just on my way to surrender my guns but they fell in the river.
And the total bullshit continues from the worst govt in canadian history. Mass Non-compliance all the way!! Fuck these idiots.
What a total waste of time and energy.
How many people a year are killed by guns that are legally owned but now on the ban list? Is it not close to zero? What a monumental waste of money.
A remarkable failure as a pilot program
Liberal Party way is to just full steam ahead with your tax dollars
Worlds Best Economist
This doesn’t seem like the best idea.
Maybe not a great time for Canadians to have less guns… 🤷🏻
„Compensation payments will be issued within 45 business days of a successful validation of the outlawed firearm. The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.“
So their goals are now even less guns nationally and they have admitted they don’t plan to compensate everyone.
The LPC is clearly trying to get people to participate they can get numbers and declare this a success. There is far, far more than 136k prohibited fire arms in Canada. They just want to make this program go away.
Here’s the good news, they gave a ridiculous short window for participating, 6 weeks got 12% in Cape Breton, maybe they will get 13% nation wide lol.
Non compliance is a valid and legal form of protest, they are clearly desperate for anything they can take as a win and gas light the public about. Don’t take the bait and participate.
Minister said compensation isn’t guaranteed! “First come first served”
Great
Just fucking backtrack already
Coming for the ‚ruggers‘.
This is so far beyond incompetence no matter what political party you align with.
This sets a very bad precedent for property rights and will no doubt stoke the separation fire while they should be focusing on unity.
When people tell you that they’re a „red Tory“ or „fiscal Conservatives“ that voted for Carney and say they hate government waste point them to this.
They’re full of it
And we get zero info on how they intend to enforce this.
This whole program is a complete failure, joke and waste of hundreds of millions of tax dollars.
>which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.
Which is not even the 150k number that they claimed from the first round
>The documents also confirm the amnesty period for possessing banned guns will end on Oct. 30, 2026. Afterwards, anyone in possession **“will be breaking the law and could face criminal prosecution.“**
Lets here from all the people on here telling us it was „voluntary“ and I am sure she had quite the smile on her face when she announced that part
Hard to take a government that is plowing through with this program seriously.
So there you have it, for anyone thick enough not to understand it.
This isn’t voluntary.
They are seizing formerly lawful property that was obtained by jumping through the very same governments laws set in place to obtain them. They were vetted for criminal records and were deemed safe to own them.
Want compensation?
Oh no. Thats not guaranteed. Maybe. Maybe you’ll get it. If you hop to it quickly enough.
This is ideology through and through.
They will be making former law abiding citizens criminals with the stroke of a pen.
In 2020 the estimated restricted firearms for buyback was ~100k. And a large amount of non-restricted firearms.
The 2024/25 ones are mostly NR as well (except M1 Carbines and very few short-barreled PCCs).
The allocated budget is for ~130k firearms, which means it is NO WHERE NEAR the amount required to compensate everyone. It might be enough for the 2020 list, but the 2024/25 lists were far, far more expansive due to their NR nature. Industry estimates places it at anywhere from 300k to 2 million.
This is not how a buyback program works. They kept talking about how good the Australian buyback worked – that’s because they had near unlimited funding and paid over market price for every and each firearm. This is NOT the case for Canada.
And Public Safety knows that. That’s why they are using FOMO tactics while explicitly stating that compensation is not guaranteed.
What a fucking joke. They’re taking property without fully intending to pay for everything they take. This isn’t a buyback program, it’s confiscation, pure and simple, all to appease uninformed voters who have no idea on the firearms laws and enforcement that were already in place.
60 days to register whatever banned guns I might or might not own, so they can be seized later. Or 287 days to keep my mouth shut, and hope this whole idiotic farce goes away.
Screw that. I’m not giving them a shopping list. If I wanted the money more than I wanted the guns, I’d have never bought them in the first place.
DO NOT COMPLY.
Don’t fall for it. They are trying to make people panic and run to hand stuff in hoping to be one of the lucky few. It’s ridiculous and so disrespectful to treat innocent people this way. Make them play a game in hopes of getting compensated for their own property.
Here’s the thing. No one needs to comply until October, its a valid and legal protest, and they will extend the amnesty again, they are trying to talk tough and make people panic, but that amnesty isn’t going anywhere, its been renewed ober and over already, and they had to do the same thing with the LGR.
And they have dug themselves into hole now that if this does reach the Supreme Court of Canada, the feds can’t stick to the original plan and the higher Court might have a different opinion under different circumstances now.
Lastly, their will be an election if Carney can’t secure a majority through floor crossing, most likely in the next year. No minority has ever survived a full term and they average 18 months. Even having an election brings the possibility of disrupting this program.
Clever trick.
Only offer a quarter of the compensation in the hopes of making gun owners rush to try and get compensation first „within 45 days“. After the money runs out the government has everyones name, address, and all the firearms they registered. Talk about incriminating yourself.
We need more guns, not less.
I like the speech at the end of the press conference, paraphrasing, of course!.
‚ Now, don’t go thinking you can hand in your firearms for compensation then can go out and buy another firearm because we might ban that too‘
“Afterwards, anyone in possession „will be breaking the law and could face criminal prosecution.“”
Come and prosecute me. Oh wait, my province isn’t prosecuting shit. Whelp better luck next time liberals
Welp, let’s see if this failed project can really hold 2.3 million legal canadian into prison just becuase Natalie Provost personally hate them. Let’s see.
It’s not actually a buy back though. Many gun owners would take a huge hit financially as they are not being reimbursed dollar for dollar. Instead they have to give up a hunting rifle worth thousands and then go buy one now considered approved with money out of their own pocket.
The guy who has the royalties to that stock photo must be making bank.
The CBC and like every other outlet LOVES that stock photo.
This is such bullshit. Don’t give in people. Make them come and take them from you. It’s my property I don’t have to bring them to you. Obviously keep it peaceful and don’t hurt anyone but make a stand as much as you as possible. This is the first deep cut to our rights and they need to understand we won’t comply.
Maybe not the best time to be disarming Canadian citizens…just sayin’.
Compensation not guaranteed. Highly doubtful any local police are going to do anything about trigger locked plinksters in safes. No reason to comply. They can’t arrest everyone.
Like fuck anyone’s complying with this lmao
Where are all the people that said Carney would be fiscally responsible? $750 million for a “voluntary” program that turns legal gun owners to criminals if they don’t comply, is certainly not fiscally responsible…
This program isn’t designed to stop gun crime or protect people, it is designed solely to appease Nathalie Provost and her lobbyist group PolySeSouvient. It is disgusting that her personal vendetta against law abiding firearm owners, who have committed no crimes, is responsible for this egregious waste of money. This money could be used to stop smuggling, which is the real root of the firearm problem in Canada, but Provost won’t admit that since she believes only legal firearms and their owners kill people.