Gov't Documents Reveal Stakeholders invited to consult on C-21, including current cabinet member, sought to end handgun target shooting, ban online gun sales, and thought gun owners illegally modified magazines "all the time"

[u/rastamasta45]

https://calibremag.ca/c-21-docs-show-stakeholders-sought-to-ban-online-gun-sales/

Yeeesh banning online sales, they really really wanted to go full scorched earth

[u/FunkyFrunkle]

I’m not even surprised. It’s been clear from the start that nobody who actually knew anything was ever consulted. Just “emotional experts”.

It was always clear, from the moment the government started providing numbers and rationale that this program was drafted completely in a sterilized bubble. It was clear that the only people who had a seat at the table were the people who supported the governments position.

It would infuriate me when they were referred to as “stakeholders” when they had nothing to lose if this program failed or succeeded. It was the people who stood to lose their property without having done anything to deserve it that were the *real* stakeholders, and we were not consulted. Not given the time of day. Just a faceless, grotesque mass of people that had to be regulated.

If I could put a somewhat positive spin on this, it is for this *very reason* that the program is failing. It is *because* it was drafted in a bubble that it’s crashing against reality in a spectacular way. It’s not difficult to tell that there was no input from the outside world, only a small number of hand selected people who supported this no matter what. Only activists and people stunned from trauma of horrific events that were allowed any input.

The result? A program that does not mesh with reality. A program that was imposed upon people and people pushed back. Now almost the entire country and a cavalcade of police forces are telling the government to pound sand, not to mention the whole thing has caught the attention of the Supreme Court.

That’s why Natalie was so angry. She spent much time being courted by the government, being told what she wanted to hear and that she was finally the one in the chamber with all of the relevant people behind closed doors getting to basically dictate what should be done according to her and she now stands a very real chance of losing it all.

Wouldn’t surprise me if she was (gently) told that this program is no longer a priority, and if there isn’t any measurable success within a certain amount of time, it was getting mothballed. Now it’s going to the SCC where it stands a roughly 50/50 chance of getting legally torched.

She’s not seeing her sensibilities and her beliefs being reflected on a macro scale and it’s eating her alive from the inside. She can’t stand not being allowed to control the conversation.