Wed Oct 19, 2022 – 12:25 pm EDT
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick (LifeSiteNews) – New Brunswick has joined three other provinces and one territory in saying no to a semi-automatic gun buyback program enacted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government.
“New Brunswick’s bottom line is this: RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) resources are spread thin as it is,” said Kris Austin, Minister of Public Safety for New Brunswick, in an October 14 joint statement with three other provinces on Trudeau’s gun grab.
“We have made it clear to the Government of Canada that we cannot condone any use of those limited resources, at all, in their planned buyback program.”
Austin’s statement added New Brunswick to the growing list of provincial governments – Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba – who have released a joint statement saying they are fighting back against Trudeau’s plan to use “scarce RCMP and municipal police resources to confiscate more than 100,000 legally acquired firearms from Canadians.”
“The four provinces also called on the federal government to direct all communications related to the federal firearms confiscation program through appropriate channels – provincial and territorial ministers responsible for Justice and Public Safety,” the statement adds.
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