r/canadaguns • u/Top_Top7440 • Mar 11 '26

News / Politics / Activism Saskatchewan Proposed Gun Buyback law -- how do I bring this to my province?

I love Runkle's synopsis of the proposed law in Saskatchewan (and how they are handling things). How do I convince the premier of my province (Ontario) to do the same?

Writing letters has never worked in the past. Is perhaps naming them on twitter or some other form of social pressure a method of making them take notice?

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u/__WayDown Mar 12 '26

How many times can conservatives lie about this?

From their policy declaration:

On issues of moral conscience, such as abortion, the definition of marriage, and euthanasia, the Conservative Party acknowledges the diversity of deeply-held personal convictions among individual party members and the right of Members of Parliament to adopt positions in consultation with their constituents and to vote freely.

If you believe that this means that the CPC is pro-choice, you wouldn't pass fifth grade language arts.

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u/thisghy Mar 12 '26

The CPC has overwhelmingly voted pro choice, the difference is that they dont force their MPs to vote a single way. Check their platform.

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u/__WayDown Mar 12 '26

That's literally from their policy declaration. I don't care if they voted pro-choice or not, they allow anti-choice opinions to be the position of their MPs which means that they don't care about pro-choice matters when it actually counts. They don't have the balls to enshrine pro-choice policy in their own party, let alone a government.

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u/thisghy Mar 12 '26

they allow anti-choice opinions to be the position of their MPs

So they allow for freedom of conscience and you are arguing that they are authoritarian?

They don't have the balls to enshrine pro-choice policy

Because that would be morally wrong and a lot of this country still dont agree with abortion from a moral perspective.

Also, there platform mentions that they would not bring up matters of abortion, leaving the status quo. So I dont see your point at all.

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u/__WayDown Mar 12 '26

This is that literacy issue that I first mentioned. To allow your candidates and MPs the moral choice to override the choices of constituents, you are only pro-choice of the MPs, not everyone they represent.

Oh, Stalin was pro-choice because he liked making his own choices for the people.

Because that would be morally wrong and a lot of this country still dont agree with abortion from a moral perspective.

You can't even go a quick back and forth without highlighting that you're against people making their own choices and think that it's actually good that conservative MPs should be able to prevent people from making those choices.

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u/thisghy Mar 12 '26

You arent pointing out a literacy issue on my part, you just made a weak argument that I refuted.

To allow your candidates and MPs the moral choice to override the choices of constituents,

They represent their constituents and not the party, thats the entire point of having a parliamentary system, parties should not be able to dictate how their MPs vote. Especially on matters of conscience.

You can't even go a quick back and forth without highlighting that you're against people making their own choices and think that it's actually good that conservative MPs should be able to prevent people from making those choices.

Im against murder and i vote accordingly.