Without the influence of Trump, we would likely now be instead contending with a Conservative majority government helmed by the party’s most right-wing leader ever.
In fact, the Conservatives made significant gains, despite failing to achieve the electoral outcome they desired. Across the country, the rightward drift is readily apparent, with Conservatives growing their seat count from 119 to 143 and their popular vote share from 33.7 to 41.3 per cent from 2021 to 2025. Moreover, the right secured growth as voter turnout rose by more than 6 percentage points.
Liberals would’ve won a lot more votes if they enacted sensible firearms laws instead of banning guns outright.
For those who aren’t big into firearms to put into perspective majority of firearms banned were chambered in 22lr (.22 Long Rifle) which most people would call a “learning caliber”, something you would give to a 15yo to learn the sport or for plinking pop bottles/cans.
Nah, just like everywhere else in the world, liberals (both in the Canadian political party sense and general ideological sense) are losing ground because they refuse to address the root causes of things like the housing crisis and spiraling economic inequality. The working class is fed up, and with no real solutions being offered by the center to center-left, they’re turning in desperation to lying right-wing demagogues.
You are spreading disinformation, because it is not true that guns are banned “outright”. Specific classes of firearms are.
But How many more votes are really at stake thru your (apparently) favored pet issue? How many Canadians who would consider voting lib do you really think are single issue gun voters?
But i’m not though?
Three different re-classifications issued by the Canadian Government. Long story short - You can no longer; purchase, sell or take these firearms out of your safe/lock-box so, yes, i would say calling them banned for recreational use is fair and justified.
I would refer you to my other comment made.
While I agree their firearm ban is totally rushed and makes zero sense at all. I still don’t think they would’ve gotten a lot more seats/votes if they hadn’t passed this law.
If they is such a big deal for the general population, Carney’s platform could’ve try to either rewrite it or cancel it altogether like Capital Gain Tax.
Though I really wish Carney’s platform could address questionable decision by the previous catastrophic PM like Bill C-21, C-18, and C-75 among many others.
Around 25% of Canadian households own some sort of firearm. Families with firearms tend to vote as a bloc, and they also tend to be single-issue voters. Firearms are that single-issue. When you’re bad on that single-issue, you lose them, when you’re good on it, you get them, when nobody’s offering much of anything, they go with who has helped them in the past, and that’s always been the Conservatives.
Excluding the MapleMAGA idiots, they also tend to be highly patriotic and consider defending this country a duty, which is why they have firearms. Many are ex-military. These are the people who could easily be swayed away from Conservative (speaking as one who did) to vote Liberal. But it would’ve been vastly easier for me if I hadn’t needed to do so while holding my nose to ignore the stinkiness of the Liberal gun policy… yet again. Many, I would say most, firearm owners in Canada, would not be and were not willing to make that sacrifice to their single-issue. Most of the people I talked to are so incensed about it I have to hide the fact that I voted for anything other than Conservative. But I know these people well, and I’m telling you, most of them, their support for the Conservatives has little to do with ANYTHING other than gun legislation. They are truly single-issue voters. They may follow talking points for the Conservatives but all they’re really trying to do is get everyone to vote Conservative so they can get better gun laws. All you need to do to get them to vote for another party is to present better gun legislation.
Note this doesn’t mean offering to give everyone tanks and allowing private ownership of nuclear weapons. Most of the responsible, law-abiding gun owners in Canada would be happy to just have the laws stop treating us like we’re the criminals, when it’s people with no license and unregistered illegal firearms responsible for the vast majority of gun crime. Fight illegal guns and unlicensed owners, not us. Ask us to help you do that, and we’ll help you. Assume good faith. We’ve jumped through all the hoops, we’ve done the background checks, we follow the laws, don’t make more hoops and more laws, don’t make the laws more complex and harder to follow, don’t limit us even further. Maybe do something to make it easier to open gun ranges (safely, indoors) instead of letting municipal NIMBYism ghettoize us into an ever shrinking number of authorized ranges with limited membership capacities in remote areas hours away from where we live. We’re simply asking for fewer legislative monkeys on our backs. We can only go through so much tedious bureaucracy before something we enjoy becomes no longer enjoyable. We shouldn’t need a separate permit to “transport” for every range day. We’re not asking for things that are unreasonable, we’re just asking for legislation that is not unreasonable. It would honestly not take much, and it would not have to negatively impact safety in any way.
I believe I must disagree here! People who have a PAL/RPAL that weren’t too political before their license are more likely to be involved with politics after getting their license given all the regulations around firearms.
You and me both.