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Canada must disclose contracts with McKinsey & Co.: Conservative and Bloc leaders
‘This government cannot be left alone,’ Yves-François Blanchet said. ‘They have some really bad habits.’
Published Jan 10, 2023 at 4:51pm
The Conservative and Bloc Québécois leaders are calling for public scrutiny of $84 million in government contracts with the famously secretive global consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the Trudeau government must release those contracts without redactions, and failing that, he called for a public inquiry.
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Monday, 30 January 2023 Election unlikely in 2023 despite recent political posturing, pundits say | |
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Election unlikely in 2023 despite recent political posturing, pundits say
Parliament is set to return Monday after a six-week hiatus
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was active during the six-week parliamentary break, making stops in Saskatoon, Windsor, Ont. and Trois-Rivieres, Que. to talk up his government's accomplishments. He also occasionally took shots at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his recent assertion that "everything seems broken" in Canada.
"Crossing your arms and saying 'Canada is broken' is not the way to build a better future for Canadians," Trudeau said.
Poilievre, meanwhile, toured Quebec in an attempt to boost his poll numbers in that province. He also met with Indigenous leaders in Vancouver to discuss a proposed opt-in policy for First Nations to share the revenue generated by resource development on their lands.
The Conservative leader also hit back at Trudeau on Friday during an address to his caucus prior to the House of Commons' return. He blamed the prime minister for inflation, the recent travel chaos and deficit spending while appearing to goad Trudeau into an election battle.
"If you're not responsible for any of these things, if you can't do anything about it, then why don't you get out of the way and let someone lead who can?" Poilievre said as his MPs cheered and applauded.
WATCH | Poilievre says 'everything is worse' under Trudeau
Speaking to his own caucus earlier this month, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh touted his party's confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals, saying that the deal was "delivering for Canadians."
But Singh also indicated that he had his eyes set higher.
"We're going to fight for every bit of help and hope we can win for Canadians and then I'm going to run for prime minister of Canada," he said.
But Tim Powers of Summa Strategies said he doesn't think any of the leaders are itching for an election right now, despite their recent posturing.
"The conditions don't exist for an election this year," he told CBC. "I don't think anybody's really going to have a breakaway moment."
WATCH | How do the federal parties stack up as MPs prepare to return to Ottawa?
Powers said the Liberals are unlikely to seek a new mandate with the threat of an economic slowdown this year hanging over the government's head.
"We will only have an election this year if Justin Trudeau sees the winning conditions exist for him," Powers said. "I don't think the Liberals are yet ready to manufacture an election."
Sharan Kaur of SK Consulting agreed that an election is unlikely this year. She suggested the Conservatives will still use the economy to needle the Liberals and position themselves as a government-in-waiting.
"I would say the biggest looming issue of 2023 is going to be cost of living, a potential recession, and that will probably be the main pivot point for the Conservatives," she said, adding that she thinks the Conservative Party is the only one that wants an election this year.
But Powers said Poilievre might be happy to wait and give himself more time to pitch himself to Canadians.
"I think Poilievre is content to have the time to let the Liberals age and build a brand and a platform that can be useful to him," he said.
If the Liberal-NDP deal holds for its intended duration, the next election won't happen until 2025.
But the agreement may face a tougher test in 2023 than it did in 2022 because it includes more benchmarks for progress — including a commitment to table pharmacare legislation. Singh also threatened to pull out of the deal if the Liberals don't address the health-care crisis.
"The confidence-and-supply agreement gets a little bit more muscular [this year]," said Brad Lavigne of Consul Public Affairs.
Snow covers a fence surrounding Parliament Hill on January 20, 2023. MPs are set to return to the House of Commons on Monday. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
NDP MP Daniel Blaikie told CBC News this month that the 2023 federal budget will be a key factor in deciding whether the Liberals are holding up their end of the deal.
But even if the deal falls apart this year, Lavigne said, it wouldn't necessarily trigger an election.
"If you look back at recent history, [former prime minister Stephen] Harper had minority Parliaments in which he had no such supply agreement with any one opposition party, yet he maintained the confidence of the House for many years," he said. "That is an option that is open to Mr. Trudeau as well."
Even if an election doesn't happen this year, Kaur said she doesn't expect the political posturing to stop.
"We're going to see a lot of pandering in the next year, especially around economic challenges, cost of living for people — just like the bread-and-butter issues," she said.
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Parliament returns — with a lot of 'unfinished business' on its plate
Even if there's no election this year, the parties are busy positioning themselves for one
When I spoke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in December, he said "there's a lot of unfinished business." He was speaking about his decision to stay on as leader of the Liberal Party. But that statement also describes the parliamentary year that begins on Monday when MPs convene for the first time in 2023.
Last year was a reasonably productive one for Parliament. But those 12 months also left behind a sizeable pile of work that remains to be completed. And while the Liberal government has much left to do if it hopes to be re-elected, the major opposition parties can't quite claim yet that they've done all they can to make their own pitches to voters.
For those reasons, an election in 2023 seems unlikely. But it should still be a consequential year — and it will start with the legislation that was still in progress when MPs and senators broke for the holidays.
What's old is new again
Before the break, the government's newest firearms legislation (C-21) was stuck at the public safety committee as critics accused it of overreach. In the face of that criticism, Liberals said they were willing to consider feedback; it remains to be seen what kind of changes will be necessary to move the bill forward.
Bill C-11, the government's contested attempt to bring major Internet platforms under Canadian broadcast regulations, was still in the Senate in December. The upper chamber seems poised to send it back to the House with amendments — the Senate committee that studied the bill recommended a dozen changes.
Minister
of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez prepares to appear before the
Senate committee on transport and communications to discuss Bill C-11 on
Nov. 22, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
If senators agree to some or all of those amendments, C-11 would become the 24th government bill the Senate has amended since Justin Trudeau began appointing independent members to the chamber in 2016.
Legislation to create a new disability benefit, meanwhile, is nearly through the House and there are three other pieces of government legislation before House committees — bills that would enact new environmental protections, reform the Official Languages Act and create a new public complaints and review commission to oversee the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency.
The Senate, meanwhile, is in possession of bills to create a new national council on reconciliation (which would report to Parliament on Canada's relationship with Indigenous Peoples) and establish the Online News Act, which would facilitate payments from major Internet platforms for the use of content from Canadian media outlets.
What's new is significant
Another dozen government bills are at second reading in the House — but perhaps the most interesting of those items was only just tabled in December.
Bill C-35 sets out how and under what conditions the federal government would fund child care and early learning programs at the provincial level. In effect, it would put into law what the Liberal government started when it negotiated a series of bilateral child-care funding agreements with each province. If C-35 passes Parliament, it will make it much harder for some future government to abandon the program.
But if C-35 isn't the most closely watched legislation of the spring, it will be because of what Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is expected to table in the next several weeks: the government's "just transition" (or "sustainable jobs") legislation.
The
phrase 'just transition' signals that the Trudeau government intends to
phase out oil and gas jobs, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith claimed in a
Jan. 10 news conference. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
Nothing the Trudeau government does on the question of energy and the future of the oil and gas industry in Canada is ever allowed to pass quietly. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has tried to start a fight with the federal government already over the mere name of the bill. But beyond the partisan politics, Wilkinson's bill should serve as a jumping-off point for a very real discussion about where the Canadian and global economies are headed and how Canada will get there.
The opposition agenda
With each of these bills, the Liberals will be putting some pressure on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to either support the government's agenda or explain what he would do differently. But the Conservatives will have their own moves to make, particularly at various House committees.
The government operations committee was already investigating the creation of the government's ArriveCan app and it will begin hearings Monday on the federal government's use of private contractors and consultants like McKinsey. Conservative members of the ethics committee are also pushing for hearings into Trade Minister Mary Ng's breach of conflict-of-interest rules.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh needs to demonstrate that his party got something out of its deal with the Trudeau Liberals. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
The NDP has shown little, if any, reluctance to go along with such investigations — and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has rivalled Poilievre lately in his willingness to denounce the Liberal government. But the New Democrats also have other things to play for lately — namely, that confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals.
Singh surely wants to be seen holding the government to account. He also no doubt wants to show that the NDP was able to achieve something with that deal. And he may need at least another year to do that.
The new dental benefit the government promised the NDP is still a work in progress and New Democrats have given the government until the end of this year to table pharmacare legislation, which would at least set out broad parameters for what eventually could be a national program.
Beyond Parliament Hill
And then there is merely everything else on the agenda.
Justice Paul Rouleau has until February 6 to present cabinet with a final report from the public commission probing the government's use of the Emergencies Act to end the convoy protests that snarled downtown Ottawa and multiple border crossings a year ago. (Cabinet will then have until February 20 to release that report.) On Feb. 7, the prime minister is scheduled to meet the premiers to discuss a grand bargain on health-care funding.
Even if Trudeau and the premiers broadly agree on what to do with health care, the prime minister is signalling an increasing willingness to engage in the fight over the notwithstanding clause. And even when Trudeau's not looking for a fight, Danielle Smith will be trying to start one ahead of what could be a very consequential election in Alberta sometime this spring.
Even if that's the biggest election in Canada this year (Manitoba and Prince Edward Island are also due to go to the polls), the next 12 months will be full of the sorts of debates and challenges that leave a mark and will shape the next national vote.
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> the Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino, all Ontario Senators,
> all members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National
> Security, and Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
>
> https://www.ofah.org/zonej/
>
>
>
> Here is a tip for any Proud Canadian
>
> Just Press Print on one old file of mine and give it any cop or lawyer
> or politician and demand that they explain it to you real slow
>
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> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>
> Federal gun control bill ruffles local rifle owners
> Prime minister says hunters not being targeted, vows to review
> amendments to Bill C-21
>
> Dale Molnar · CBC · Posted: Dec 06, 2022 4:00 AM ET
>
>
> Windsor author says federal legislation would ban widely owned rifle
> Duration 1:16
> A.J. Somerset shows his SKS semi-automatic hunting rifle, which is one
> of the rifles that would be banned in Canada under the proposed Bill
> C-21 in its current form. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the
> legislation is now under review to ensure it does not go after hunting
> rifles.
> Area hunters, anglers and sport shooters are angry over proposed
> additions to the federal government's gun control legislation, Bill
> C-21.
>
> After the bill passed second reading, the Liberals introduced
> amendments to strengthen the legislation and make some long guns
> illegal.
>
> A. J. Somerset is an author on gun culture and the owner of an SKS
> semi-automatic rifle. He says it is one of the most commonly used guns
> in hunting and adding it to the list of banned weapons doesn't make
> sense.
>
> "We can say that banning assault weapons, whether you agree it's
> necessary or not, at least it's a legitimate policy goal. But the way
> in which this is being done is banning a lot of guns that really don't
> fit the definition," said Somerset.
>
> Bill C-21 being reviewed to ensure it doesn't affect hunting
> rifles, shotguns, says Trudeau
>
> How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns
>
> Somerset surmises the SKS Soviet-era weapon was added to the list
> because of its use in recent high-profile shooting incidents.
>
> A. J. Somerset owns one of the rifles that could be banned under
> the proposed legislation. He also authored a book on gun culture.
> (Dale Molnar/CBC)
>
> Ray Boilard, 1st vice chair of Zone J of the Ontario Federation of
> Anglers and Hunters, says Bill C-21 is going after the wrong people.
>
> "The law abiding sport shooter and hunter is not holding up corner
> stores or partaking in mass shootings," said Boilard. "The Liberal
> government with this Order in Council is not going to be taking away
> guns from the average criminal."
>
> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday afternoon the
> government's gun control legislation is being reviewed to ensure it
> does not target legitimate gun use.
>
> Trudeau says they are not trying to target hunters and sport shooters.
>
> Boilard says he will believe the government when he sees the hunting
> long guns taken off the list.
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Dale Molnar
>
> Video Journalist
>
> Dale Molnar is a video journalist at CBC Windsor. He is a graduate of
> the University of Windsor and has worked in television, radio and
> print. He has received a number of awards including an RTDNA regional
> TV news award and a New York Festivals honourable mention.
> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>
>
> Comments
>
>
> David Amos
> At last a comment section to study
>
>
> Buddy Wallis
> Having Liberals write gun laws is like having someone who has never
> driven and hates cars writing all the traffic laws.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to Buddy Wallis
> C'est Vrai
>
>
>
> John Swanson
> Time to move to Alberta only Province with guts.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to John Swanson
> Madame Bell of SK stepped up to the plate and began swinging last week
>
>
> Robby Butler
> Reply to John Swanson
> We will not comply
>
>
> Stu Grimsone
> More legislation that will do nothing for Gun crimes... nobody robs a
> bank with a 4ft long shotgun that people hunt with. This is complete
> idiocy. Meanwhile, Criminals keep getting smuggled guns from the US to
> shoot up our streets and the Government has no answer for that.
>
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>
>
> Top 5 Guns Every Canadian Owns
> Barely Tactical
> 1.1K subscribers
> 22,362 views Jan 3, 2022
> It's a brand new year so we thought we'd kick things off with a brand
> new series! This is the first video in our "Top 5" videos in which we
> look at the guns that every Canadian firearm owner likely already has
> in their collection!
>
> 143 Comments
>
>
> David Amos
> Methinks you forgot the old faithful lever action 30 30s N'esy Pas?
>
>
>
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>
> London-area gun owners glad PM wants review after federal weapons ban
> targets ordinary guns
> 'They didn't do their homework," said Tory MP Karen Vecchio of the
> C-21 Liberal gun bill
>
> Clement Goh · CBC News · Posted: Dec 06, 2022 5:00 AM ET
>
>
> Among the rifles included in the sweeping federal weapons ban aimed at
> prohibiting military style weapons are Benelli shotguns (shown here at
> a trade show in Germany), designed for hunters, not soldiers.
> (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
>
> Gun owners in London, Ont., say they're happy the federal government
> has agreed to review its last minute changes to a proposed list of
> banned of firearms, which many critics say would unfairly target
> hunters by outlawing ordinary guns and not "assault-style" firearms.
>
> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the review on Monday while at
> the reopening of the CAMI manufacturing plant in Ingersoll, Ont.,
> promising his government would take a step back and give the
> controversial list a second look.
>
> Last week, Liberal MP Paul Chiang expanded the scope of the
> legislation after the bill passed second reading, introducing the
> following changes to the list of federally-banned weapons:
>
> Any rifle or shotgun that can potentially accept a magazine with
> more than five rounds
> Any weapon that generates more than 10,000 joules of energy
> Any gun with a muzzle wider than 20 millimetres
> A large number of semi-automatic firearms that do not have
> detachable magazines, including a number of long gun models in wide
> use by Canadian hunters
>
> Critics say the changes to the bill, which was originally meant to
> target handguns and powerful military-style weapons, would now ban
> everything from blackpowder muskets, semi-automatic shotguns — even
> some low-calibre varmint rifles, designed primarily to kill rodents.
>
> How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns
>
> Why this female firearm instructor says she wants more women to
> learn the sport
>
> "Maybe they got enough backlash," said Brian Kington, a firearm and
> hunting instructor with the East Elgin Sportsmen's Association said of
> the review announced by Trudeau on Monday.
>
> "Some of the guns they got on there, they're sporting guns, hunters
> use them all the time."
>
> The expanded scope of the weapons ban was meant to build on an initial
> proposal in May 2020 that banned more than 1,500 models and variants
> of what the government considers "assault-style firearms."
>
> But critics point out that, among the weapons on the expanded list,
> are a number of semi-automatic shotguns, capable of shooting up to a
> maximum of three shots, designed for duck hunters; not soldiers.
>
> "They're not designed the way the government suggests," said Fred
> Staub, registration representative at Rueger Firearm Safety in
> Dorchester, Ont., and a member of London's gun community.
>
> Staub said the last-minute change to the list was reactionary — aimed
> at trying to keep specific weapons out of a criminal's arsenal without
> considering the potential implications for law-abiding gun owners.
>
> "Somebody goes out and commits a heinous crime using that gun, then
> they go and look at the gun the person has and says 'nobody should
> have that gun.'"
>
> "You think for a second that person wouldn't have killed somebody with
> a different gun?"
>
> Some vintage hunting rifles face prohibition for exceeding a rule that
> bans guns that produce over 10,000 joules of energy. One example is
> the Westley-Richards rifle in .460 Weatherby Magnum caliber. (Rock
> Island Auction)
>
> Last week, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told the House of
> Commons hunters with conventional guns would not be targeted by the
> expanded list, but that wasn't the case, according to Karen Vecchio,
> the Conservative MP for Elgin-Middlesex London.
>
> "It's fine to say 'it's not affecting the rifles and shotguns of
> farmers,' but it absolutely is."
>
> "It's clear they didn't do their homework," she said. "These hunters
> are using them for hunting rabbits, small vermin, things of that
> sort."
>
> "I think what the government has done is they've come in not
> recognizing the guns they put on there."
>
> CBC News reached out to Marco Mendicino for comment, but did not
> receive a response in time for publication.
>
> According to the federal government, the amendment featuring the
> latest review of the proposed legislation will now involve
> consultations with hunting communities across the country.
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Clement Goh
>
> Digital Producer
>
> Clement is a writer across TV and Digital with CBC Toronto and CBC
> London. Since 2018, he has also worked in various newsrooms across the
> GTA covering city affairs, community events and entertainment.
> Outside, he is a resident gamer and keeps his popcorn close at the
> latest movie premieres. You can reach him with tips, story ideas and
> compliments at clement.goh@cbc.ca and Twitter via @theinstaword
>
> with files from Peter Zimonjic and Evan Dyer
>
> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>
>
>
> Fred Staub
>
> B.A. & O.M.D.P.
>
> 519-615-4867
>
> Registration representative for Sue Rueger aka “Sue’s better half”
>
> guncourse@hotmail.com
>
> Hey Fred Enjoy
> “A Goose That Didn’t Matter”
>
> I guess at least eight hundred ducks have fallen to my gun,
> And Charlie’s always been right there retrieving every one.
> But somehow, try as we might,no matter what our ruse,
> We failed, that old Black Lab and I, to ever get a goose.
>
> The vet had said it must be done, so bring him in on Monday.
> His eyesight’s weak and he’s too old to brave the Bay of Fundy.
> I’d picked him from the litter even though his was the runt.
> And now fourteen years later, this would be our final hunt.
> And so I asked a friend that night, who grew some corn and barley
> If I could hunt his field next day, to get a goose for Charlie.
>
> No bird came to our blind, alas, because of bluebird weather,
> But still we enjoyed the day, because we were together,
> While driving home with heavy heart, I rubbed the grizzled head,
> And looking in those big brown eyes, to him, I softly said,
> “You know a man can only do the best that he is able,
> It don’t appear there’ll be a roasted honker on our table,
> But Charlie, we’ll have porkchops, since that is your favourite treat,
> And you’ll not just have one or two, but all that you can eat”
>
> And so that night, by lantern light, we shared our final meal,
> I talked to him of days gone by, of Mallards, Scaup and Teal,
> Old Charlie wagged his tail with joy, beside his heaping platter,
> And missing from the menu was, a goose - that didn’t matter.
>
> Bill Foster
>
>
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>
>
> Price apologizes, says he did know about Polytechnique shooting
> Habs goalie says he did know about the massacre after team said he did not
> Verity Stevenson · CBC News · Posted: Dec 05, 2022 3:56 PM ET
>
>
> The Montreal Canadiens say goaltender Carey Price was not aware of the
> 1989 Polytechnique Massacre when he made a post in favour of hunting
> firearms days ahead of its anniversary. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
>
> The Montreal Canadiens organization and goalie Carey Price have issued
> apologies after Price posted a message on social media in support of a
> gun lobby group that recently used "POLY" as a promotional discount
> code.
>
> The team issued a statement on Monday that Price didn't know about the
> 1989 Polytechnique Massacre or its upcoming anniversary.
>
> However, Price said Tuesday said he did know about the massacre and
> regretted the timing of his post.
>
> Price published his initial Instagram post on Saturday, just days
> ahead of the massacre's Dec. 6 anniversary. In it, Price shared his
> support for a lobby group, the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
> (CCFR), following amendments to the federal government's gun control
> legislation, Bill C-21, last week.
>
> The amendments appeared to push the bill further by including a number
> of firearms used for hunting, a move that was swiftly condemned by
> firearm advocates and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the
> government is looking into rectifying.
>
> Price, 35, has spoken in the past about the importance of hunting to
> him. He is a member of Ulkatcho First Nation — his mother is a former
> chief — and grew up in the small remote community of Anahim Lake in
> British Columbia.
>
> "I love my family, I love my country and I care for my neighbour. I am
> not a criminal or a threat to society. What [Prime Minister Justin
> Trudeau] is trying to do is unjust. I support the [CCFR] to keep my
> hunting tools," Price wrote.
>
> But the post also came a day after one of the survivors of the
> Polytechnique mass shooting, Nathalie Provost, denounced the CCFR for
> creating promotional code "POLY" offering customers 10 per cent off of
> merchandise.
>
> Polytechnique mass shooting survivor slams gun rights group for
> using 'POLY' promo code
>
> Provost, who is also a spokesperson for the gun-control group
> PolySeSouvient, created by survivors of the massacre, called the
> discount code "incredibly disrespectful." The code was in reference to
> the group.
>
> Provost was shot four times by the gunman who killed 14 female
> students and injured 13 others that day.
> Team apologizes for post
>
> Monday evening, Price tweeted that he only made the Instagram post in
> reaction to the Bill C-21 amendments.
>
> "My views are my own and I do believe them. The only reason I bring up
> this issue is because it is what's being brought up now and not out of
> disrespect to anyone," Price wrote. "No, I [don't] agree with the
> promotional code either."
>
> In a statement earlier in the day, France Margaret Bélanger, the
> president of Groupe CH, the company that owns the Montreal Canadiens
> hockey team, said the group had shared negative reactions to the post
> with Price.
>
> "He was not aware of the tragic events of Dec. 6, 1989, nor of the
> coalition's recent marketing initiatives," Bélanger told Radio-Canada
> in an email.
>
> Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price posted a picture of himself with
> a gun and the message 'I love my family, I love my country and I care
> for my neighbour. I am not a criminal or a threat to society. What
> @justinpjtrudeau is trying to do is unjust.' (Carey Price/Instagram)
>
> Monday evening, the team issued a statement on Price's post.
>
> "The Montreal Canadiens wish to express their sincere apology to any
> and all who have been offended or upset by the discourse that has
> arisen over this matter in recent days," the statement said.
>
> The statement also recognized the National Day of Remembrance and
> Action on Violence Against Women — saying the team's thoughts are with
> the 14 women who died 33 years ago, their loved ones and survivors.
>
> The team said it made a donation to the Week of the White Rose
> campaign to send 14 underprivileged girls to Polytechnique Montréal's
> summer science camp, Folie Technique.
>
> Events underway to honour victims of Montreal's École Polytechnique
> shooting
>
> On Tuesday, Price posted an update to his Instagram page.
>
> "I think the people of Montreal know my heart and my character and
> know I would never intentionally cause pain to those impacted by gun
> violence," he wrote.
>
> "Despite a previous statement released, I did in fact know about the
> tragedy. I have been a member of the MTL community for 15 years and I
> understand the weight this day holds within the community."
>
> Price said he stood by the opinions he shared but acknowledged that
> "amplifying any conversation around guns this week may have upset some
> of those impacted most by the events here in 1989 and to them I
> apologize."
> Coach says timing unfortunate
>
> Canadiens coach Martin St-Louis said the timing of Price's initial
> Instagram post was unfortunate but that he did not believe the player
> meant any malice by it.
>
> "I'm not sure Carey knows the full story [of the Montreal massacre]. I
> remember it clearly; I was a boarding student at Collège Notre-Dame. I
> was 14 and it really shook me," St-Louis told reporters Monday
> afternoon.
>
> The private college is next to the Université de Montréal campus where
> Polytechnique, the university's engineering school, is and where the
> mass shooting took place.
>
> "I'm not sure people outside of Quebec know all about it. Carey's a
> sensitive guy, he's a family guy. I don't think the post was made with
> malicious intentions," St-Louis added.
> Contentious gun control legislation
>
> As for the relationship between Price and the firearms advocacy group,
> Bélanger said, "I believe Carey is best positioned to answer that."
>
> Speaking in Ingersoll, Ont., Trudeau attempted to reassure gun owners
> Monday by promising the legislation is being reviewed to ensure it
> does not target legitimate gun use.
> WATCH | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to C-21 amendments pushback:
> ‘We’re not going after hunting rifles or shotguns,’ PM says
> Duration 1:50
> In response to criticism of Bill C-21, Trudeau reaffirms commitment to
> go after ‘the most dangerous weapons’ and says the government is
> listening to feedback to ensure it is ‘not capturing weapons that are
> primarily hunting weapons.’
>
> He made the comments in response to widespread pushback against
> significant amendments made to Bill C-21, a bill crafted initially to
> ban handguns that the Liberals are attempting to amend with a new list
> of long guns to be banned.
>
> It's unclear whether the firearm Price is holding in the photo he
> posted is included in that list or not.
>
> Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said on Twitter that
> Price had been convinced "that the purpose or effect of gun control is
> to harm hunting for sport, which is incorrect."
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Verity Stevenson
>
> Verity Stevenson is a reporter with CBC in Montreal. She has
> previously worked for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star in
> Toronto, and the Telegraph-Journal in Saint John.
>
> With files from Peter Zimonjic, The Canadian Press and Radio-Canada
> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
> Fwd: Good on you about Chinese Covid protesters
>
> Doug Wright
> <doug.freedom@icloud.com> Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 4:20 PM
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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> Subject: Good on you about Chinese Covid protesters
> Date: December 6, 2022 at 1:17:13 PM MST
> To: "justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca" <justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>
>
> You are the laughing stock of the world.. :)
>
>
> Trudeau said Monday that the focus of Bill C-21 is on guns designed to
> "kill the largest amount of people as quickly as possible.”
>
> You mean like the kind of guns that you are sending to Ukraine?
> The ones that you are sending that you told us were to stop the blood
> shed!
>
> What kind of a moron are you to believe that sending more guns to
> the criminals running the Ukraine will stop the blood shed?
> It will create more!
> Wake up.
> The people are waking up!
> Your days as leader are numbered.. or are you planing to install
> some more voting machines to steal another election?
>
>
>
> Regards
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