r/canadaguns • u/rastamasta45 • Mar 18 '26

News / Politics / Activism ‘Congratulations for shooting this guy’: Premier lauds Vaughan resident who shot intruder

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/york/article/congratulations-for-shooting-this-guy-premier-lauds-vaughan-resident-who-shot-intruder/
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u/Cager_CA Mar 18 '26

Time to legislate protections for gun owners Dougie.

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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl Mar 18 '26

Those are the only conditions under which I'd give him a full W on this.

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u/rastamasta45 Mar 18 '26

Send emails and write letters, I know I did!!

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u/Cager_CA Mar 18 '26

I already emailed him

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u/rastamasta45 Mar 18 '26

My man 🤜🏽🤛🏾

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u/Minor-inconvience Mar 18 '26

Call your MPP. I called mine today. I said it’s great why Dougie is saying but if he won’t back it up with legislation like Alberta and Saskatchewan to make this “buyback” harder for the libs it’s doesn’t mean much.

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u/SmellyTeamSeven Mar 18 '26

Best he can do is exempt himself and his buddies from FOIA requests, take it or leave it!

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u/uberduck999 N/R Whisperer Mar 19 '26

The Firearms Act and the Criminal Code are pieces of federal legislation. All firearms laws fall under the Federal government.

Individual provinces cannot override that, unfortunately, unless we completely change the way our judiciary functions. But i think it might be about time for that.

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u/Cager_CA Mar 19 '26

Look into what Saskatchewan is doing first 

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u/mischling2543 Mar 19 '26

And that's what sgould happen. The only way to permanently put Alberta separatism to bed is to drastically increase provincial autonomy over things like this, along with immigration and such.

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u/xpingux Mar 19 '26

And concealed carry privileges. Whatever training a cop needs to do it, I should be able to do also.

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u/gnu_gai Mar 18 '26

There's only so much a Premier can do as the Code and Firearms Act are federal jurisdiction; but a token would be nice

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u/Cager_CA Mar 18 '26

Look at what Sask is doing first

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u/dandyarcane Mar 18 '26

Exactly - he can literally copy them, and coming from the largest province would carry a lot more political sway