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House Hansard - 138

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 30, 2022 02:00PM
  • Nov/30/22 2:50:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Prime Minister is saying that he is protecting public safety, but the crime rates are skyrocketing in this country. Gang-related homicides have not been this high since 2005. Violent crime is up by a third since he took government seven years ago. Canadians are seeing this every day in the news in our communities, and the Liberals have now brought forward a new plan for fighting crime. Do members want to know what it is? It is to go after hunters and farmers and the tools that hunters and farmers use safely every day in this country. That is what the Liberal Prime Minister is targeting now. When is he going to stop this unfair attack on our hunters and farmers and start going after the real problem, the gangsters and criminals in our cities?
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  • Nov/30/22 2:51:36 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister continues to deny he is going after hunting rifles, but I am looking at the list right now, and it has hundreds and hundreds of perfectly common, reasonable and legitimate hunting rifles on it. Members do not have to take my word for it. They can take the word of the tens of thousands of hunters who have already reached out to MPs in every party across this chamber, including Liberal members with rural Canadian seats. I know they have received these emails as well. No one believes that going after hunters and farmers is going to solve the crime issue under the Prime Minister's watch, or perhaps the Prime Minister believes it. Perhaps he is just trying to change the channel from his failed record on public safety. When will he stop this unfair—
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