After reading Bill C-71, The Firearms Owners Harassment Act, and digging into its details, I teamed up with Nicolas Johnson (TheGunBlog.ca) to write the book on Bill C-71. Our goal: help liberty lovers connect with their MPs, engage in the political process and make our views known. We are grateful to former MP Garry Breitkreuz for writing the Foreword and to the Canadian … [Read more...]
Bill C-71 Talking Point Tuesday – May 15
If you haven't written your letter to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale yet, here's a quick and simple letter you can send right now. It takes less than 5 minutes. For a quick and simple description of how to write a short letter to Minister Goodale, as well as a list of the 6 MPs you should send a copy of your letter to the Minister, please visit … [Read more...]
Bill C-71 Talking Point Tuesday – May 8
I haven't written on the blog for a while now. Other projects, including a book to be released later this week, have taken over the time I usually reserve for blogging. That said, here's the latest... If you haven't written your letter to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale yet, here's a quick and simple letter you can send right now. It takes less than 5 … [Read more...]
Dr. Mike Ackermann’s Answer to RCMP Unfinished Receiver Edict
Dr. Mike Ackermann is one of my favourite people. He's intelligent and has a heart bigger than the Atlantic ocean. He's on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) and devotes incredible amounts of time, energy and money to defending our firearm rights. He's also mischieveous and willing to put Government in its place without a moment's … [Read more...]
MP Bob Zimmer discusses Quebec gun registry data supposedly deleted by RCMP
Yesterday Bob Zimmer, MP, shared my article "Did RCMP Deputy Commissioner Peter Henschel Lie to Committee?" In this video he discusses what I uncovered, as well as the most recent information on how data deleted by the RCMP can still exist. For the details of what Bob Zimmer discusses in the video above, read Did RCMP Deputy Commissioner Peter Henschel Lie? Part 2 here … [Read more...]
Did RCMP Deputy Commissioner Peter Henschel Lie? Part 2
First, my thanks to Nicolas Johnson from TheGunBlog.ca for his collaboration so we could get to the bottom of this issue. See his angle on it here. Yesterday I asked the question, "Did RCMP Deputy Commissioner Peter Henschel Lie to Committee?" The answer, it turns out, is both yes and no. It took a while to follow the breadcrumbs to sort out why, … [Read more...]
Did RCMP Deputy Commissioner Peter Henschel Lie to Committee?
As you know, Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale introduced Bill C-52 on Friday, June 9, 2017. That bill is, for the most part, designed to give Quebec the all of the long gun registry records it sought in its lawsuit against the federal government. The question everyone is asking is this: Why are there any records left to give Quebec? It's a valid question. On … [Read more...]
Is Trudeau Government Really Blinking on UN Firearms Marking Regulations?
Is Trudeau Really Blinking on UN Firearms Marking Regulations? It would appear he is. Social media lit up this morning over a report from Regina Gun Safety & Licensing that said the Firearms Marking Regulations would be deferred until December 31, 2018. UPDATE: Conservative Public Safety Critic, Hon. Tony Clement, and Conservative Deputy Public Safety Critic, Larry … [Read more...]
Vic Toews: Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often, and for the same reason
While claiming it’s perfectly reasonable for the government to spy on its citizens, the shoe is clearly on the other foot in a lovely social media twist that makes a point to Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews. Toews is very cranky over how his personal life and details of his divorce, infidelity and lack of child support is being displayed very publicly on a … [Read more...]
Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant understands why gun owners hate the Firearms Act. Pity the Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews, isn’t listening to her
On Tuesday, February 7, 2012, Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant rose in the House of Commons and made the following speech. In it she highlights why everyday law-abiding Canadian gun owners despise Canada’s Firearms Act, and why, to quote her, “The creation by the Liberals of a new criminal class, rural firearm owners, was the ultimate triumph of the negative political politics” … [Read more...]