r/canadaguns • u/Big-Guitar-1979 • May 15 '26

News / Politics / Activism Lending Program

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u/Big-Guitar-1979 May 15 '26

What about Ontario

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u/jmz-jmz May 15 '26

If someone can do it in AB, not sure why they wouldn’t be able to do it in ON…unless it’s up to the provincial CFO maybe?

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u/HatchingCougar May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

You got it 

The provincial CFO has to be onboard with it.

SK and AB broke the (liberal) mold for appointing CFOs and actually appointed someone who is somewhat pro firearms to the position.  Where as it’s been nearly a universal rule for decades that the role was normally held by someone who was an anti

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u/conanap May 15 '26

I know we like to shit on Ontario (rightfully so), but our current CFO actually seems pretty chill? They were very reasonable with my friend’s medical stuff, and we also saw them approve the revolver 22lr a few days ago, even though logically there’s no discipline where that makes sense.

This won’t happen in Ontario because the OCFO has stated their position is that we can’t advertise to rent a pistol (but you can still do it if you find a “friend”), but they’re not as antigun as we all try to make them out to be.

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u/HatchingCougar May 15 '26

Good to know 👍

(still ticked off from the Wyatt era, LoL)

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u/CanadAR15 May 16 '26

Somewhat pro firearms? I think Dr. Bryant would rightfully take that as an insult.

Dr. Bryant is absolutely a firearms enthusiast and is the Iain McCallum (forgotten weapons) of Nambu pistols. Here’s her website.

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u/picatdim May 16 '26

Ian McCollum*

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u/CanadAR15 May 16 '26

Holy crap. I searched the name on his site to verify when I wrote that comment. Turns out he has an article on his website about the author Iain McCallum who also writes books about guns but is not him 😂

Didn’t expect that!

https://www.forgottenweapons.com/tag/iain-mccallum/

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u/picatdim May 16 '26

Haha that's such a weird coincidence! 😂