Fri Sep 30, 2022 – 3:56 pm EDT
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (LifeSiteNews) – Manitoba has become the third Canadian province in a week to declare it will not go along with a semi-automatic gun buyback program enacted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government.
On Wednesday, Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen posted a letter on Facebook addressed to Trudeau’s minister of public safety, Marco Mendicino, stating the province’s intention to not go along with the federal buyback program.
“We feel many aspects of the federal approach to gun crimes unnecessarily target lawful gun owners while having little impact on criminals, who are unlikely to follow gun regulations in any event,” wrote Goertzen in the letter originally dated September 13.
“In Manitoba’s view, any buy-back program cannot further erode precious provincial police resources, already suffering from large vacancy rates, from focusing on investigation of violent crime,” added the provincial minister.
In his Facebook post, Goertzen noted that instead of enforcing Trudeau’s mandate, the province will be “bringing these concerns, along with the shared concern of Saskatchewan and Alberta, directly to the federal government next month in meetings of Ministers of Justice and Ministers of Public Safety.”
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