r/canadaguns • u/SKSFan79 • Mar 19 '26

News / Politics / Activism Liberals quietly cut money available for compensation in "buyback" by nearly $200 million

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EhXUU2OV6w&t=3s

According to Calibre Magazine looking at Treasury Board documents,, the Liberals have apparently cut the money available for compensation in their "buyback" from $250 million to $64.8 million, with no notice to current or future participants.

We tried to to tell everyone their guns would be seized and they'd get nothing.....

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u/Lumindan Mar 19 '26

Indeed, but at least it gives a potential Conservative majority the chance to implement " with use".

That's not how that will work. Grandfathering closes the book on that part of ownership entirely. It'd be the final fuck you moment at arms ownership.

It's not unrealistic considering it's already where we are at with handguns.

A nebulous and death by a thousand cuts level of ownership? Yeah I guess. Handguns are mia for majority of folks and the work required to amend c21 is gonna suck.

You don't want grandfathering. You think you do but youre wrong. At least being stuck in the grey zone of extended amnesty means you can readdress the issue down the road.

Plus registration leads to confiscation and the first step of grandfathering is, guess what? Building a list of newly registered items.

The conservatives will have an easier time if we don't get grandfathering.

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u/Murray3-Dvideos Mar 19 '26

I think Carney wants closure to the matter tho. Amnesty extensions don't give him that. So I doubt we'll see it.

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u/Lumindan Mar 19 '26

If Carney wanted closure he had ample opportunities to do so. I don't understand why people keep repeating this point as if it's fact

Every single time he's had a chance to kill the program, he's doubled down on it. During the election, after the election z during the budget, during the multiple house sessions, after the leaked comments by his own public safety minister. He has committed to it EVERY single time. Hell, he was advising Trudeau on matters before hand.

At what point do you stop giving him the benefit of the doubt?

They'll keep kicking the can down the road because if he closes it, he admits that they've spent decades targeting the wrong people and doing nothing but burn tax money for votes and the illusion of public safety.

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u/Murray3-Dvideos Mar 19 '26

I didn't mean closure in our favor. I think it was an unfullfilled promise Trudeau made that Carneys election campaign saw as a valid vote gainer rather then loser. They want to try and thread the needle by appeasing Montreal enough to not lose their vote, but also not piss off tax payers by blowing billions on a proper buyback. Carneys got bigger fish to fry, hence why hes said very little regarding the matter and just left all the PR damage to big cheek Gary to absorb.

The "controversial" guns are more or less banned, the "promised buyback" ran its course (statistically, it failed and wasted a billion), but they'll rely on dodging that subject since they're experts at that. The only remaining issue will be dealing with the suspected non compliance with formally NR firearms. They'll either ignore it, or if it becomes bad enough PR, they'll look for something along the lines of "grandfathering."