The federal government’s firearms confiscation agenda—dubbed The Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme by CSSA—targets the wrong people.
While criminal shootings continue unabated, Mark Carney is, like his predecessor, focused on confiscating guns from their licensed firearms owners.
Confiscating those guns in pursuit of the government’s stated objective – stopping violent criminals with illegal guns – is irrational and laughable.
To use the analogy of drunk drivers, the Carney and his Liberal government believe the only way to stop drunk drivers is to confiscate vehicles from sober drivers.
It’s nonsense, and Canadians know it.
According to a May 2025 Leger poll[i], when asked which approach would be most effective in reducing crime committed with illegal guns, 55% of Canadians supported tougher measures to stop the illegal smuggling of guns into Canada from the United States.
Only 26% favored banning and confiscating specific makes and models of firearms, the Trudeau/Carney plan.
“The poll shows that Canadians know the real problem is illegal gun smuggling, not firearms owned by licenced Canadian gun owners,” said Gage Haubrich, the federation’s prairie director.[ii]
Despite this, the government continues pouring its resources into harassing law-abiding Canadians, while organized crime benefits from the political theatre.
The distinction between legal and illegal firearms is central to public safety.
While licensed firearms owners are subject to daily background checks through the Canadian Firearms Program, criminals operate in a black market unaffected by laws or regulations.
The Throne Speech
Carney, through the Throne Speech, promised to revoke firearm licenses from individuals convicted of intimate partner violence or subject to protection orders.
The ability to revoke a person’s firearms license has been law since 1995. That provision covers a multitude of offences.
The “red flag laws” mentioned in the Throne Speech are also the law of the land through Bill C-21, which received Royal Assent on December 15, 2023.
Is Mark Carney ignorant of existing Canadian law?
Or is he, using the King as his proxy, following Justin Trudeau’s tradition of announcing “new” measures over and over and over again to leverage voter ignorance into easy and repeatable photo ops?
Cheryl Gallant (MP for Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke) observed there was no mention of the Liberal campaign promise to begin widespread seizures of newly prohibited firearms within the next four months—a silence that may indicate internal hesitations.[iii]
Ms. Gallant said it was encouraging that “His Majesty did say that the rights of lawful firearms owners would be protected and as the former Public Safety Minister said last December, phase two of the great Liberal gun grab will involve sending the police to the home of every single licensed firearms owner to conduct searches for newly prohibited firearms.”
That would treat over 2.3 million Canadians like criminal suspects, not citizens.
Ms. Gallant rightly points out the absurdity of diverting police resources from fighting real crime—like the record number of teens being shot in cities across the country—to knock on the doors of peaceful, RCMP-vetted citizens.
It’s perverse that this government puts its own political ideology above real-world evidence.
Confiscating legally purchased property from responsible citizens under the pretense of safety, while ignoring the sources of criminal violence, is bad policy that undermines public trust.
Ms. Gallant correctly calls this “investment destruction.”
So What Should Be Done?
If the goal is truly to reduce gun crime and make communities safer, Canadians already offered the answer.
- Stop the illegal flow of guns across the border.
- Invest in border technology, intelligence operations, and criminal investigations.
- Target smuggling networks, not senior citizens with antique rifles.
- Empower the RCMP to tackle organized crime, not to confiscate property from hunters and sport shooters.
We need a firearms policy based on reality, not ideology and political theater.
Call to Action
If you believe law-abiding Canadians should not be treated like criminals—and that our police should focus on stopping the real flow of illegal firearms—then speak up.
Contact your MP.
Demand the government stop its Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme.
Encourage the government to redirect its efforts toward securing the border and fighting gang violence.
It’s time for smarter solutions that solve real problems, not more scapegoating for political theatre.
[i] https://www.taxpayer.com/media/Buyback_Poll.pdf
[ii] https://torontosun.com/news/most-canadians-want-feds-to-focus-on-gun-crime-not-confiscation-poll
1 Comment
Peter
If and when they arrive at my doorstep to seas, what am I really obliged to provide? If I take everything apart in pieces, the only part that’s registered is the receiver. So I handed the receiver and save everything else.