r/canadaguns • u/Flat-Dark-Earth Big Bore Specialist • 28d ago

News / Politics / Activism Assuming the coming Supreme Court challenge rules in the governments favour, are we expecting OIC #4?

Worst case scenario, the Supreme Court ruling rules in favour of the government, deciding all previous bans were just.

What do we expect? Another OIC wrapping up the remaining semi-autos by model?

New legislation announced banning firearms by newly defined features?

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u/AnvilsHammer 28d ago

It depends on how much political capital they want to keep in those 3 Montreal ridings and Poly.

Even if the SC overturns, chances are they will still have a majority. Carney could just throw up his hands and say this was a Trudeau thing and I don't care, and just only revive it at election time. Or he could just push through a new firearms act and we could be looking at a worse version California gun laws.

Unless someone is a LPC insider, which I highly doubt, no one here will really know the right answer.

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u/Scooba_Mark 28d ago

They have had many opportunities to abandon this joke if a program a d haven't. Sadly, I don't think they will now.

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u/Dill_Pickle_Tears 27d ago

An SCC loss would be the most ideal off ramp for them, anything else would leave too much room for criticism.

I understand they’ve had what appears to be many off ramps, but I fail to see how people don’t think this would be their one golden opportunity.

This isn’t some kind of “carney is different and doesn’t want to ban guns” cope, IMO, and this certainly isn’t planned or deliberate on their part.

That said, when you consider the cost-benefit when playing the game of politics, it’s a desirable move to make.

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u/outline8668 26d ago

You think they recruited Provost and trot her out for every gun related press conference because they have any intention of abandoning this program? Come on.