On Tuesday morning, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree will announce details about the Liberal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme, dubbed a “voluntary return” by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“This is not about confiscation. This is about voluntary return of firearms for compensation of these firearms,”he told Edmonton talk show host Ryan Jesperson.[i]
Then the real gaslighting began.
“We’re not confiscating guns. Anyone who says that, that is a mischaracterization.”
You can’t have it both ways, Prime Minister.
If licensed firearms owners will face criminal charges when they refuse to comply with your “voluntary return” then it’s mandatory confiscation.
Another Extended Amnesty Period?
The current amnesty period expires on October 30, 2025. Previous missed deadlines are April 30, 2022 and October 30, 2023.
Minister Anandasangaree says the confiscation scheme will be completed “within a year of its start date.”[ii]
That means the next extension will expire no later than December 31, 2026.
Ottawa’s Obsession and Ottawa’s Blind Spot
Here’s the darker irony. While Ottawa obsesses over locking licensed citizens into a maze of storage, reporting, and eventual confiscation, Canada’s streets bleed from an entirely different source.
- Statistics Canada reports violent offences with firearms have surged 81% since 2009.[iii]
- In Toronto, over 85% of crime guns trace directly to U.S. smuggling.[iv]
- Peel Police seized 729 illegal guns in 2024—one every other day.[v]
- CBSA hauls in caches of long guns, a handgun, ammunition and gun parts.[vi]
- Saskatchewan and New Brunswick pile up seizures tied to drug networks.[vii], [viii]
- Chief Bill Fordy of the Niagara Regional Police states, “The last set of data we had was that 90 percent of crime guns in Ontario where I police are from the United States.”[ix]
The northern flow of illegal guns is relentless, yet Ottawa’s gaze stays fixed on rural gun safes, not gun smuggling pipelines.
Punishing the law-abiding will never disarm the lawless.
A multi-billion-dollar firearms confiscation compensation scheme is not public safety, it’s political theatre.
It diverts resources from the real challenge of stopping the traffickers, smugglers, and gang networks arming themselves with weapons untouched by gun bans or amnesty extensions. The next round of political theatre will take place on Tuesday morning, and we’ll let you know what that means for you and your legally-owned property then.
[i] https://www.youtube.com/live/rNYM9–93e0?t=1173s
[ii] https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/08/18/liberal-gun-buyback-program-will-be-completed-within-a-year-says-public-safety-minister/
[iii] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/campaigns/firearms.html
[iv] https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2022/09/08/most-crime-guns-seized-in-toronto-smuggled-from-us-report
[v] https://thepointer.com/article/2025-04-23/perception-of-rising-gun-crime-in-peel-shaped-by-police-narrative-that-fuels-conservative-agenda-data-tells-a-different-story
[vi] https://www.canada.ca/en/border-services-agency/news/2025/08/cbsa-seizes-large-quantity-of-firearms-during-a-search-in-st-anicet.html
[vii] https://westcentralonline.com/articles/saskatchewan-policing-teams-highlight-gun-and-drug-seizures-in-first-half-of-2025
[viii] https://rcmp.ca/en/nb/news/2025/06/police-seize-31-firearms-significant-quantity-drugs-and-make-seven-arrests
[ix] https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/investigates/us-firearms-smuggling-fuels-canada-gun-violence-crisis/287-11ebf9ae-6e11-4557-b6c6-f4902d4c016e
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Mike Ackermann
Send him some adoration. Make it maliciously loving and kind…
Here’s mine:
Dear Andy, I hold you in as high esteem as you undoubtedly deserve.
Given your keeness of intellect and level of knowledge of the subject matter of your portfolio, we LAGOs can expect policies to issue forth from your department whose momentous greatness, efficacy and efficiency can only be exceeded by your personal good looks and capacity for self reflection.
I wish you a life as long as your capabilities are immense, and may you reign over us for ever, or at least until the next election, whichever comes first.
-Your greatest fan,
Me.