Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner says his government hasn't decided yet whether the province will join others in resisting the federal government’s firearm buyback program. “At this point, we’re studying what’s best for Ontario,” he said.
Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner said on Monday his government hasn't decided yet whether the province will join others in resisting the federal government’s firearm buyback program.
“At this point, we’re studying what’s best for Ontario,” said Kerzner, who Premier Doug Ford appointed solicitor general a few weeks after Ford's election on June 2.Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino wrote to the provincial governments in August asking them to help implement Ottawa's forthcoming buyback program.
Last week, Alberta Solicitor General Tyler Shandro said the United Conservative Party government wouldn’t direct provincial policing resources toward helping the federal government follow through in buying back firearms it banned a couple of years ago. “We will not tolerate taking officers off the streets in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearms owners,” Shandro was quoted as saying by theWithin the next few days, cabinet ministers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba stated they intend to take similar positions as Alberta, as theChristine Tell, the minister of corrections, policing and public safety for the conservative-leaning Saskatchewan Party government, wrote to the highest-ranking RCMP officer in the province instructing...
“The Government of Saskatchewan does not support and will not authorize the use of provincially funded resources for any process that is connected to the federal government’s proposed ‘buyback’ of these firearms,” Tell wrote, according to the
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