Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner presented the largest petition to parliament in Canadian history calling upon the Trudeau government to end its targeting of law-abiding gun owners.
I just presented the largest Parliamentary petition in Canadian history. 230,000 Canadians asked for an end to firearms violence in Canada by cracking down on smuggled firearms, and gang violence, and to stop the Liberals targeting of law abiding Canadians. pic.twitter.com/dNbgeIWriw
— Michelle Rempel Garner (@MichelleRempel) March 11, 2021
The petition, signed by 230,000 Canadians, demands a federal crackdown on gang violence and gun smuggling while lifting regulations on law-abiding gun owners.
"Over 230,000 Canadians have signed a petition to stop firearms violence in Canada," Rempel said. "This petition acknowledges that firearms violence in Canada is caused by firearms that are smuggled in illegally from countries like the United States and are related to gang violence."
Data from Toronto appears to support this assertion, with former police chief Mark Saunders having previously admitted that more than 80 percent of gun violence in Toronto took place using firearms illegally smuggled from the United States.
"The petition calls upon the government to recognize that law-abiding firearms owners in Canada – hunters, sports shooters – are some of the most highly-vetted Canadians in the world, that the vast majority of data shows that they are not the problem when it comes to firearm violence."
After being filed, petition e-2574 grew with remarkable speed, surpassing what was at the time the most signed petition in Canadian history, which also had to do with firearms, in a matter of days.
The petition comes in response to an order in council issued last year by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following the string of deadly shootings across Nova Scotia. The OIC prohibits certain firearms for Canadians, including "assault rifles," allowing them two years to sell their weapons to the federal government.
The Trudeau government later followed up the OIC with the announcement of upcoming gun control legislation. The legislation is expected to include stricter storage requirements for gun owners, but will also allow owners of firearms being prohibited to grandfather them.
The legislation was ultimately introduced in mid-February.
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