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Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, didn’t come to Ottawa to play small‑ball; he came with big ideas and a big appetite for central control — and now his government is moving to seize privately owned firearms in the name of safety. That overreach is being sold as common sense by a left‑leaning elite, but ordinary Canadians see a bailout of ideology at taxpayers’ expense and a naked assault on lawful owners.
The so‑called Assault‑Style Firearms Compensation Program flopped spectacularly in its Cape Breton pilot: just 25 firearms surrendered and roughly $26,535 paid out to owners, a humiliating return for a program the feds hyped as a major public‑safety win. If this is the model for a nationwide roll‑out, hardworking Canadians should rightly ask how many billions more will be squandered chasing symbolic photo ops instead of real criminals.
Provincial resistance is mounting because citizens smell a raw power grab and see the logistical nightmare this creates; Alberta and Manitoba have signaled they won’t cooperate, and even Saskatchewan’s firearms commissioner warned the scheme will misidentify lawful owners and create massive red tape. The RCMP’s rank and file have also warned that diverting personnel and resources to execute Ottawa’s confiscation plan will make communities less safe, not more.
Independent analysts and taxpayers aren’t fooled by the optics of a gun “buyback” that targets legal owners while criminals keep their contraband; pilots showed tiny compliance and enormous administrative costs, and critics rightly note the federal amnesty window extends months later — undercutting any pretense of urgency. This isn’t a sober public‑safety policy, it’s political theater engineered to placate anti‑gun activists while Ottawa spends money it doesn’t have.
Back home, the collapse of legacy media and the rise of outlets that actually tell the truth about these failures can’t be mourned enough — the old establishment spent years normalizing soft authoritarian policies and gaslighting citizens who asked hard questions. Conservatives aren’t nostalgic for an era of pretend objectivity; we want journalism that holds power to account, exposes government waste, and refuses to cheerlead confiscation schemes that punish the law‑abiding.
Across the aisle in Washington, conservatives are finally calling out the left’s favored advocacy networks for enabling grievance politics and turning every enforcement action into a racial cudgel; Senator Eric Schmitt’s blistering questioning of a Soros‑funded NGO underscored that fraud and lawlessness will be prosecuted regardless of the woke narratives designed to shield malfeasance. That moment was a reminder that fighting fraud, enforcing the law, and defending citizenship aren’t unpopular positions with the American people — they’re common sense.
Patriots on both sides of the border should be watching Canada’s train wreck with alarm: when elites confiscate property in the name of virtue and legacy media looks the other way, liberty loses. It’s time for citizens, local officials, and honest journalists to stand up, demand transparency, and stop the wasteful, performative policies that punish decent people while doing nothing to stop real crime.
