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u/ayysilver Jun 08 '22

I...uh, kinda miss Harper right now. Never thought I would say that but here we are.

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u/Tacticfreedom Jun 09 '22

I don't get all the hate towards Harper, sorta off topic, but he brought Canada's debt lower than it has been in a long time. And Trudeau managed to bring it higher than I ever fathomed it could get.😂

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u/truthdoctor bc Jun 09 '22

That is simply false. Harper added $160 billion to the national debt. His government had no problem banning the Swiss arms and the CZ 858 until the public outcry and then they backtracked. Harper was no friend to the people or this community.

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u/mangled-jimmy-hat Jun 09 '22

The government did ban those rifles. The RCMP did by fiat.

It had nothing to do with Harper. In fact Harper fixed the RCMPs fuck ups by regulating them better.

You seem confused.

Also 160 billion over a decade? Compared to 600 billion in one year?

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u/truthdoctor bc Jun 10 '22

I'm not confused at all. Both Vic Toews and Steven Blaney knew of the ban beforehand which showed the Harper government knew the rifles would be prohibited and were perfectly fine with it.

Also 160 billion over a decade? Compared to 600 billion in one year?

Trudeau is worse on the debt. That doesn't make Harper any good. I don't support either. The world isn't black and white.

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u/mangled-jimmy-hat Jun 10 '22

The ban was done by the RCMP not by the government.

Furthermore the bans were technically legal given some of the firearms were converted auto.

The RCMP was applying the law.

The government had nothing to do with it.

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u/Rook_Defence Jun 08 '22

In my opinion, yes.

Muzzling scientists, using the state as a weapon to deprive gay people of certain civil liberties in accordance with his religious beliefs, gutting funding to critical natural resources departments, and stopping programs that were important to indigenous Canadians.

Furthermore, although it's tempting to think back on changes like scrapping the long-gun registry fondly, we must also remember the countless things he could have done, but did not do, for gun owners. He may have thrown us a bone, but he didn't show any real commitment to gun ownership as a concept, as far as I can see.

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u/bcbuddy Jun 09 '22

The Trudeau government still suppresses scientists

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/05/13/DFO-Suppresses-Science-Pushes-Salmon-Farms/

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u/xKYLx on Jun 09 '22

Trudeau gov will suppress anyone's opinion that goes against their own

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u/Rook_Defence Jun 09 '22

Yep, one of the many things I dislike intensely about our current government.

Trust me when I say I can detest two governments at once. Maybe more!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22

Silencing scientists and their organizations is one thing, but depriving gay people of rights? What is this inflammatory language? Where are you getting this from?

We were close to getting suppressors and other previously prohibited rifles during his time in PMO. That was around the early 2010s according to some industry insiders but then Trudeau happened. I'd prefer a boring accountant PM over this bullshit we have going on now.

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u/Rook_Defence Jun 09 '22

You're correct that I did mis-word one element. I should have written "attempted" to deprive gay people of certain civil liberties.

Namely, the December 6 2006 motion to reopen the same-sex marriage debate.

Since the passage of the Civil Marriage Act had provided equal access to civil marriage and divorce for same-sex couples, the (defeated) motion put forward by the Conservative government in December 2006 to "reopen the debate" could only have resulted in the same or reduced marriage equality for same-sex couples. If Harper's government had been committed to equality for these people, what value in reopening the debate?

Also, I don't tend to give governments much credit for being "close to" doing something. I don't cut the Trudeau Liberals slack for being close to fulfilling a 7-year old promise to get boil-water advisories lifted, nor do I give him slack for being close to doing something about cost of living, so I won't give the Harper Conservatives any points for being close to meaningful changes to the Firearms Act, that did not materialize in 4 years of majority government.

Don't get me wrong, scrapping the long gun registry was a big deal, and there were other good things done by that government, but just because I loathe the current government's policies on a lot of things doesn't mean I have to put on rose-tinted-glasses when I look back at the Harper years.

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u/yummybunnybear Jun 09 '22

This whole "anti gay" allegation against politicians in the 2000s needs to be put to rest. Even Obama ran against SSM for both terms (2008, 2012), only to change his tune in the middle of his second term as the courts across the States were increasingly ruling in favour of SSM. The Supreme Court of Canada in the marriage reference never ruled to make SSM mandatory (it only ruled that the federal government had the jurisdiction to change the definition of marriage if it chose to). SSM was very rare around the world in the 2000s and it was considered an experimental idea. Even liberal France didn't have it until 2013. Harper has identified himself as an "incremental conservative" which means a more pragmatic conservative who makes social policy changes incrementally rather than being informed by any particular philosophy or religious dogma. His view on SSM at the time was consistent with his political view and the views of the vast majority of liberal nations. Celebrate the fact that society has moved forward, but it's disingenuous to fault people living through the time as not having the same hindsight as yourself right now.

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u/Rook_Defence Jun 10 '22

I was in favour of same-sex marriage equality at the time as well, to be clear.

I'm not trying to reopen the same-sex marriage debate in a forum about guns, it's just one element of why I thought he was a bad PM. If people are held up on that, then drop the same-sex marriage criticism, and put in bill C-30 in its place.

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u/Super-Ad5958 Jun 08 '22

That's why Canada elected Trudeau Jr right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22

Canada elected him because he was young, seemed ok (lol) and promised free weed. This country has a consoomer mindset.

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u/McLower Jun 09 '22

While I lean more on the conservative side of things, I do agree with some of trudeau’s agenda. Legalizing marijuana opened up a fair amount of job opportunities and I do believe the lgbtq community should be free to be who they are. The way he handled the Ottawa convoy, the firearm registration and handgun freeze, and a lot of other things could have been handled MUCH better in my personal opinion. Overall, I think he’s done some good and some bad for Canada. As a person though, I think he’s a bumbling idiot.