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OTTAWA — Internal government documents from 2019 put the cost of a government mandatory gun buyback at nearly $2 billion, despite assurances during the last federal election that expropriating so-called “assault rifles” from licensed Canadian firearms owners would only cost between $400 million and $600 million.
Over three years after it was announced, the federal government has yet to release any sound estimates on what the expropriation would cost taxpayers. “Of note, the costing could also fluctuate, as the number of non-restricted firearms could be higher than the proxy used in the costing assessment.” In an interview with Radio-Canada, PolySeSouvient accused Trudeau of “betraying” and “abandoning” victims of gun violence.
That was followed by the May 2022 tabling of Bill C-21, the government’s wide-ranging gun control legislation, currently under committee consideration in the Senate.
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