Canadian Shooting Sports Association | | CSSA eNEWS | July 21, 2025 | | |
While headlines scream about the rising costs of groceries, power bills, and climate policy flops, something subtler is brewing in Ottawa: a quiet retreat from the Trudeau-era firearms ban.
The 2025 Liberal Pre-Budget Consultation survey offers Canadians an opportunity to influence the Mark Carney government’s public spending priorities.[i]
For gun owners, hunters, sport shooters, and those who care about evidence-based public safety policy, Question 3 is the battlefield.
This question invites Canadians to choose which federal priorities deserve funding. Among the options?
“Completing the firearms buyback program.”
Trudeau’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme is an expensive political stunt that has already lost credibility in the eyes of the media, economists, and even elements within the Liberal Party itself.
We suggest checking one to three of the following options for Question 3:
- Investing in the Canadian Armed Forces
- Recruiting more RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency personnel to strengthen border security and combat organized crime
- Make bail policies stricter for violent and major crimes
- Investing in Canada’s Arctic
- Making dual-use investments which serve defence as well as civilian readiness such as airports, ports, telecommunication and emergency preparedness systems
- Building up Canada’s defence industries
When the Media Turns, So Do the Liberals
The Globe and Mail published a surprising op-ed from Robyn Urback calling Ottawa’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme indefensible, exorbitantly expensive, and politically toxic.[ii]
“The proposed buyback program, by contrast [with the carbon tax],” Urback writes, “isn’t defensible by any measure: it targets the wrong weapons, legally owned by the wrong people, to try to tackle a problem it will absolutely not address. It is already overly bureaucratic, incredibly complicated, and exorbitantly expensive.”
When Liberal-friendly media breaks ranks, government policy shifts soon follow.
Mark Carney is no fool. He’s watching the backlash. He knows how to read political wind. And if gutting this program saves political capital for more “climate initiatives,” he’ll do it in a heartbeat.
After all, this is the same man who’d bankrupt the country on carbon credits while suddenly pretending to be frugal over a $600 million gun control budget.
Sacrificing Quebec’s Dairy Cartel Show a Bigger Game
On the same day as the Pre-Budget Survey was announced, the Liberals softened their stance on long-standing dairy protections. Quebec’s dairy quotas were untouchable for decades, yet today they’re being sacrificed on the altar of trade with New Zealand.[iii]
If the dairy cartel can be cracked, so can the sacred cow of “gun control saves lives.”
Especially when even Liberal supporters admit it doesn’t.
Complete the Pre-Budget Consultation Survey and pay close attention to the options in Question 3.
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What is the most appealing aspect of sport shooting for you?
a. The discipline and mental focus required for shooting sports 5.3%
b. The sense of community and camaraderie among diverse members 1.6%
c. The rigorous safety protocols ensuring responsible firearm use 1.7%
d. The empowerment gained from mastering a complex skill 90%
e. All of the above 1.3%
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Date: 2025-07-16
Subject: Gun clubs and businesses
One aspect of the liberal stance on guns that has been effective for them is the slow destruction of firearm businesses being bled to death by a thousand cuts. This is part of the hidden agenda, gutting the industry and making the retail sector give up. Our range is holding its head above water but the volunteers who make it work are dwindling.
Dave R.
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Date: 2025-07-15
Subject: Canada Asks Gun Owners Why They Won't Comply With Struggling AR-15 Buyback Program?
With our present government's prior history and continuing pattern of rampant corruption, egregious criminal behaviour, and flagrant disregard of the constitutional rights of their "subjects", they failed my criminal background check.
Under those circumstances, it would be immoral for anyone to hand over their lawfully acquired firearms to the morally bankrupt kleptocrats running the country... into the ground, under any circumstance.
Andre P.
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We welcome your comments. If you would like to send us a letter (under 250 words, please), email us at:
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Mark your calendars!
The Canadian Shooting Sports Association will be at Ribfest in Lakeview Park, Oshawa, from August 15–17, 2025. Stop by our booth to meet our team, learn about safe and responsible firearms ownership, and find out what we’re all about. Whether you’re a seasoned shooter or just curious, we’d love to connect.
See you at Ribfest!
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Club Level Safety Instructor Course
– Saturday, September 13, 2025 –
9 a.m.
Oshawa, ON
Description –
This course prepares candidates to train fellow club members (at clubs in which the candidate holds a membership) in firearm safety.
The Club Level Safety Instructor Course reviews the ACTS-PROVE method used in the Canadian Firearms Safety Course/Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course. Students will also learn about methods of instruction in firearm safety and topics to be include when teaching at their club.
Prerequisites –
Must hold a valid RPAL, be a CSSA member in good standing and have 1 year of shooting experience.
Length – 8 hours – Classroom-only program – NO live fire.
Cost – $90
If you are interested in attending this course, please email Judith at judith.crowell@cssa-cila.org or call our office at 1-888-873-4339.
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Range Safety Officer Course
– Sunday, September 14, 2025 –
9 a.m.
Oshawa, ON
Description –
This one-day course is designed to train candidates to conduct a safe and informal firing line for the local gun club. It is a generic program for use with sports shooters who are not in a specific discipline. It is not intended to replace any current safe practices but to enhance and refresh all current and future Range Safety Officers and Line Safety Officers in their duties and responsibilities at the local level.
The purpose of this program is to ensure that all Range Officers are trained to the same standard, making for an improved shooting experience for our membership.
Prerequisites –
Must hold a valid RPAL, be a CSSA member in good standing and have 1 year of shooting experience.
Length – 6 hours - this is a classroom-only program at this location – NO live fire.
Cost – $85
If you are interested in attending this course, please email Judith at judith.crowell@cssa-cila.org or call our office at 1-888-873-4339.
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CSSA TARGET is an informal handgun and rifle bullseye target competition, whose aim is to promote the sport of target shooting in a safe, fun and friendly atmosphere.
The informal competition’s “shooting year” is November 1st to October 31st annually and you may shoot and submit as many targets as you like, but only your top ten scored targets count.
To sign up visit https://cssa-cila.org/target/
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Hamilton police chief speaks about recent gun violence downtown
VIDEO: CHCH News’ Emily Tayler speaks with Hamilton Police Service Chief Frank Bergen on the rise in gun violence across the city just days after an innocent bystander was fatally shot in the downtown core.
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The Marksmen Club, located in North Oshawa/Hampton, is now accepting new members.
The Marksmen Club is a 25 yard indoor shooting club for handgun, .22 rimfire rifle and pistol calibre carbine rifles.
We operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and offer monthly matches for Bullseye, P.P.C and IPSC.
For more information on becoming a member of the Marksmen Club, contact tmcnewmember@gmail.com or visit our website: www.marksmenclub.com
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Man, 22, in hospital after shooting in downtown Windsor | CBC News
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Airing JULY 27, 2025 on CITY TV
Season 21 | Episode 4
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WATCH: Washington Gun Law host says Illinois gun ban case is 'full Monty' for SCOTUS
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NRA-ILA | Legacy Media Finally Acknowledges Politization of Public Health
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