Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s latest gun legislation avoids the tricky political bits
On Monday, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino put forward a gun-control package with a hole in the middle.
It has to come – that is, if the government’s gun bill, or at least the parts that purport to deal with assault weapons, are to make sense. “It’s a betrayal,” Nathalie Provost, who was injured in the Polytechnique shooting, told reporters on Monday. She later told The Globe and Mail that Prime MinisterShe pointed out the glaring gap: The bill sets a definition of assault-style guns that will be banned in the future, but it does nothing about 482 gun models already on the market that the Liberals were planning to ban in December. As it stands, Ms.
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