“I will respect you.”
After years of non-stop harassment by the Liberal Party, MP and Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre told a packed audience at CSSA’s annual “Stick To Your Guns” dinner that he will, once elected Prime Minister, implement simplified classification, do a plain-language rewrite of the Firearms Act and would respect the rights and freedoms of Canada’s firearms owners.
He also said he would add the Enforced Firearm Prohibition Order to the Criminal Code, a sure-fire method of reducing gang-fuelled gun crime on our city streets. This is great news, as the federal government under both parties has ignored the complete failure of Canada’s existing Firearm Prohibition Order system.
On the firearms file, Pierre Poilievre stands firm with firearms owners.
“A Poilievre government will end the attacks on our lawful, licensed, vetted hunters and farmers.”[i]
“Trudeau’s going to spend over a billion dollars targeting our law-abiding hunters and farmers, right? Meanwhile, he’s introduced legislation to reduce criminal penalties for gun crimes, like smuggling and extortion. This is insane. 82% of all the guns used in crime in downtown Toronto do not come from law-abiding people. They are smuggled in from the United States of America.”
But of much greater importance to most Canadians, Pierre Poilievre’s primary commitment is to make Canada the freest nation on earth.[ii]
“Forty years after Pierre Elliott Trudeau brought home the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, his son Justin is leading a relentless attack against its principles. The Prime Minister has introduced legislation that attacks section 2(b) of the Charter, which is supposed to guarantee free expression for Canadians.
“Trudeau’s Bill C-11 would give government bureaucrats the power to manipulate social media algorithms, so that only state-approved content is visible to Canadian readers and viewers. And recently, the Prime Minister empowered police to seize the bank accounts of political opponents.”[iii]