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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Why a use language of defeat like retreat? Shouldn't it be celebrated that they listened to concerns and reacted?
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Revisionist history.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/cons...ster-1.6171754
Liberals (and the NDP who initially supported it) has zero intentions to budge on this amendment, even claiming that Conservatives were fearmongering.
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OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is accusing the Conservatives of "whipping up fear" that the Liberal government is outlawing ordinary long guns and hunting rifles.
The government only wants to reinforce a regulatory ban on assault-style firearms such as the AR-15 by enshrining a definition in legislation, and it is prepared to work with MPs to get it right, Mendicino said in an interview.
"The government has no intention — no intention whatsoever — to go after long guns and hunting rifles," he said. "And this is simply Conservative fearmongering."
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trud...exts-1.6201494
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"Our focus now is on saying okay, there are some guns, yes, that we're going to have to take away from people who were using them to hunt," Trudeau said. "But, we're going to also make sure that you're able to buy other guns from a long list of guns that are accepted that are fine for hunting, whether it's rifles or shotguns. We're not going at the right to hunt in this country. We are going at some of the guns used to do it that are too dangerous in other contexts."
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Turns out (a shock for the Laurentien Liberals and out of touch GTAers), that a large demographic of the NDP and Liberal in rural area use hunting rifles for their livelihood, most notably in rural BC regions and Northern Ontario. The backlash was so severe that it could cause traditionally NDP / Liberal areas to vote Conservative on this issue. Add to that native leaders calling the ban a violation of their treaties, and Liberals started backtracking
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/firs...ghts-1.6186862
They only retreated because part of their own demographic was against it, and could have alienated first nations as well, until then, it was only those pesky rural conservative fearmongers that were getting hit.
They deserve nothing.