While headlines scream about the rising costs of groceries, power bills, and climate policy flops, something subtler is brewing in Ottawa: a quiet retreat from the Trudeau-era firearms ban.
The 2025 Liberal Pre-Budget Consultation survey offers Canadians an opportunity to influence the Mark Carney government’s public spending priorities.[i]
For gun owners, hunters, sport shooters, and those who care about evidence-based public safety policy, Question 3 is the battlefield.
This question invites Canadians to choose which federal priorities deserve funding. Among the options?
“Completing the firearms buyback program.”
Trudeau’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme is an expensive political stunt that has already lost credibility in the eyes of the media, economists, and even elements within the Liberal Party itself.
We suggest checking one to three of the following options for Question 3:
- Investing in the Canadian Armed Forces
- Recruiting more RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency personnel to strengthen border security and combat organized crime
- Make bail policies stricter for violent and major crimes
- Investing in Canada’s Arctic
- Making dual-use investments which serve defence as well as civilian readiness such as airports, ports, telecommunication and emergency preparedness systems
- Building up Canada’s defence industries
When the Media Turns, So Do the Liberals
The Globe and Mail published a surprising op-ed from Robyn Urback calling Ottawa’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme indefensible, exorbitantly expensive, and politically toxic.[ii]
“The proposed buyback program, by contrast [with the carbon tax],” Urback writes, “isn’t defensible by any measure: it targets the wrong weapons, legally owned by the wrong people, to try to tackle a problem it will absolutely not address. It is already overly bureaucratic, incredibly complicated, and exorbitantly expensive.”
When Liberal-friendly media breaks ranks, government policy shifts soon follow.
Mark Carney is no fool. He’s watching the backlash. He knows how to read political wind. And if gutting this program saves political capital for more “climate initiatives,” he’ll do it in a heartbeat.
After all, this is the same man who’d bankrupt the country on carbon credits while suddenly pretending to be frugal over a $600 million gun control budget.
Sacrificing Quebec’s Dairy Cartel Show a Bigger Game
On the same day as the Pre-Budget Survey was announced, the Liberals softened their stance on long-standing dairy protections. Quebec’s dairy quotas were untouchable for decades, yet today they’re being sacrificed on the altar of trade with New Zealand.[iii]
If the dairy cartel can be cracked, so can the sacred cow of “gun control saves lives.”
Especially when even Liberal supporters admit it doesn’t.
Complete the Pre-Budget Consultation Survey and pay close attention to the options in Question #3.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/consultations/2025/pre-budget-consultations-2025.html
[i] https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/consultations/2025/pre-budget-consultations-2025.html
[iii] https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2025/07/minister-sidhu-and-minister-macdonald-statement-on-resolution-of-the-cptpp-dairy-tariff-rate-quotas-dispute-with-new-zealand.html
1 Comment
Carl Robb
The legal firearm confiscation is nothing but theft of legally owned, legally used personal private property. It will do absolutely nothing to prevent crime and is based on an emotional push by anti-gun people who mostly know nothing about legal firearms. This huge amount of money would be much better spent on border security, armed forces equipment and hospitals, dry out centres for drug dependant people. I have personally lost a large amount of income that I earned as a predator control hunter on local ranches where my semi-automatic rifle was a necessity to conduct this work. It has made life much more difficult for me as a senior on pension.