r/canadaguns • u/rastamasta45 • Mar 24 '26

News / Politics / Activism LGR 2.0?

Does anyone else starting to get the sneaking suspicion that this entire buyback scheme is a $1 billion dollar embezzlement plan to get tax payer funds into their friends hands? The website cost over 1 million to make and is barely functional. They’ve spent 800 million plus and haven’t even collected guns yet. They spent 22 million on the retailer portion and apparently have if them weren’t even paid.

Yall think they’ll back out last minute only because they got their fill of the billion? 👀

Just a thought.

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer Mar 24 '26

Of course it is. The liberal way.

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u/gnu_gai Mar 24 '26

Because Con politicians would never redirect government money to their friends, right? This sort of corruption is a class issue, not a partisan issue

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u/MourningWood1942 Mar 25 '26

This isn’t a “what about” discussion. Con politicians aren’t the ones in power, the liberals are and have been for a very long time.

We should be punishing those who do regardless of political party.

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer Mar 24 '26

True but in recent times it's only been done by liberals and at new-generation scale. Yeah sure if a conservative party won there would still be some questionable spending (size) but we haven't seen that so...

Just because the cons would do it too (theoretically) doesn't mean liberals are justified in doing it now.

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u/gnu_gai Mar 24 '26

If you mean federally, of course it's only been Liberals recently, they're the only ones to have formed government. Though Harper's spending on the 2010 G8/20 summit comes to mind as a spectacularly wasteful use of the public purse. Regardless, my point is that it's not justifiable regardless of what colour tie they wear, the majority of both flavours come from the same socioeconomic class. Just like gun ownership in general, framing it as a partisan issue helps nobody

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u/Cope180-Enjoyer Mar 24 '26

Seems to me liberals love destroying the current fabric of society for virtuous future progressiveness. Banning guns and wasting a billy along the way is one of the most tone deaf things a government can do. Do they read history books?

Idk, I am biased but at least if the Cons waste money it's in my chosen flavour.

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u/Saskatchewan-Man sk Mar 25 '26

Exactly. The folks pushing privatization would never ever give government jobs and funding to their buddies in the private sector in exchange for campaign donations or cushy jobs on committees once they're out of office.

That's a libs only game!

/s

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u/Beginning-Marzipan28 Mar 24 '26

Yeah like 5% as much as the Liberals probably 

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

go to the guarding sub and the buddy hoser sub, they NEVER dunk on the liberals, They are fanatical in their beliefs.

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u/CallMeSirJack Mar 25 '26

Most privately owned media in Canada is right leaning, publicly funded tends to be left leaning. Depending on what you watch changes the news you see.

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u/gnu_gai Mar 25 '26

Not even a liberal voter lmao. If you think corruption is limited to only capitalists with red ties, I don't even know what to tell you

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u/Own-Pause-5294 Mar 25 '26

Debating an imaginary opponent?

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u/Plasma_48 Mar 25 '26

wtf is this argument? Nowhere did he argue that voting lib would give you your guns back. It’s not even related to his argument that corruption happens on both sides of the aisle.