\u0027We’ve seen too many innocent lives lost. And certainly that is true in my hometown in Toronto\u0027: Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino
“We’re capping the market for handguns,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, minutes after his government tabled Bill C-21.
It also created a voluntary buyback program for the newly banned weapons, which was fiercely criticized by gun-control advocates for not going far enough. Their platform also promised to make the banned weapons buyback mandatory instead of voluntary, and earmarked $1 billion in financial aid for provinces, territories and municipalities who went forward with a handgun ban.
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