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House Hansard - 139

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 1, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22
Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe, CPC)
  • Dec/1/22 2:10:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, since the government took office in 2015, gang-related homicides have increased by 92%. The Liberals reduced sentencing requirements for serious gun crimes and now violent crime is up 32%. The Liberals will not admit their soft-on-crime approach is failing all Canadians. Last week, the government initiated a ban on rifles and shotguns. This will ban hundreds of thousands of firearms in Canada that are used for hunting. The ban includes slow-to-fire guns and purpose-built hunting firearms that are designed to shoot birds or deer. It said it would not, but it did. There is no trust in the government. Instead of addressing gang crime and gun smuggling, the government is vilifying hunters and farmers. The Liberals know Canadian hunters are not causing the crime surge in Canada, but they are going after them anyway because it is all about politics and not fighting crime. Their ill-conceived plans to go after hunters is the largest attack on law-abiding firearms owners in Canadian history. It is a direct attack on our Canadian cultural heritage. The Conservatives will always stand up for victims, go after gangs and smugglers and trust Canada's law-abiding gun owners.
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Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/1/22 2:21:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, based on the list that the minister has provided in his very legislation, it is not assault rifles. It is hunting rifles. Let me list off some of the rifles: the Montefeltro Super 90 Turkey, the Mossberg 715T Tactical 22 Duck Commander, the Benelli Super Black Eagle Ducks Unlimited. These are firearms specifically designed to hunt small fowl and to go after vermin and other farm pests. Why is the government not targeting real crime rather than targeting farmers and hunters?
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Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22
Hon. Marco Mendicino (Minister of Public Safety, Lib.)
  • Dec/1/22 2:22:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I assure my colleague that we are going to work with the members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety with regard to this amendment, but, more important, our goal here is to target those assault-style rifles, those AR-15 style guns, which have been used in far too many casualties in Portapique, in Quebec and in Ontario, where most recently we saw two frontline police officers gunned down. I do not know how anyone can look the families of the victims in the eye and say that we cannot do everything that is necessary to take these guns off our streets. These AR-15's have no place on our streets.
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Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/1/22 2:22:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, he is doing nothing to take dangerous guns off the street. In fact, 82% of guns used in crime in Toronto, according to the city's police, come smuggled across the border. He has done nothing about that, but he wants to spend another billion dollars going after rifles and shotguns that are specifically designed and used by hundreds of thousands of law-abiding and licensed Canadians for hunting. These are law-abiding people who have been vetted by the RCMP. Why does he keep targeting the lawful people rather than keeping the illegal guns out?
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Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22
Hon. Andrew Scheer
  • Dec/1/22 3:30:44 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-21 
Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order. Hope springs eternal, and maybe while the government House leader was answering my question, he reflected on the benefit of all members having this information right now, because oftentimes the answers to questions indicate some confusion on the government side as to the hunting rifles that would be banned in the bill. Do I have unanimous consent—
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