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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Feb 07 '23

It's official MacGregor is off SECU.

I look forward to supporting @MPJulian in his work on #SECU and #C21 going forward and briefing him on the amendments we carefully crafted from witness testimony and submissions.

This is a huge blow. Any optimism I had about his amendments are gone. I'm back to just hoping for the largest delays, changes in the Senate, and an election.

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u/Flat-Dark-Earth Big Bore Specialist Feb 07 '23

What do we know about the new guy?

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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Feb 07 '23
  • Extremely partisian NDP
  • Supports current handgun freeze
  • originally filed a motion to ask the house speaker rule the amendments out of order
  • appears to want to focus on ghost guns
  • is not MacGregor

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u/GinnAdvent Feb 07 '23

Time to write more letters to NDP and comment on how fair MacGregor is?

At this point, they need to keep everything in check so you need someone to keep the bar up there.

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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Feb 07 '23

What made MacGregor fair was not letters and phone calls, it was going to VFGPA. I really think that trip opened his eyes to the bullshit we were facing. Julian seems far more ideological so I can't see him actually doing that.

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u/GinnAdvent Feb 07 '23

Then I hope MacGregor can convince Julian to do the same and go to VFGPA as well. Not to mention all the thing he proposed.

It's kind of sucks how precarious the situiation all depend on single position.

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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Feb 07 '23

VFGPA isn't in Julian's constituency, so he would probably go to a Vancouver range. But even then, I don't think there is a break in Parliament schedule that will allow MP's to go back home before C-21 passed the house.

We just have to hope he introduces the amendments as MacGregor wrote them and doesn't undermine them.

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u/GinnAdvent Feb 07 '23

Aww, that sucks, I hope they have their own discussion properly before going to the SECU meeting.

Then again, if that's was the case, they wouldn't need to remove MacGregor in the first place.