QUESTION PERIOD — Public Safety
Firearms Buyback Program
October 2, 2025
Government leader, yesterday’s shooting in a Laval Starbucks is yet another reminder that Canadians are paying the price for a Liberal public safety agenda that empowers criminals across the country. Instead of tackling the real drivers of gun crime, your government insists on barrelling ahead with a staggering $742‑million policy to confiscate law-abiding citizens’ legally registered firearms, a program that your own public safety minister calls a waste of money.
When will the Prime Minister show leadership, fire his incompetent public safety minister and finally scrap this failed gun buyback scheme and start tackling the real problem of violent crime?
I think that the gun buyback program is a program that Canadians deserve because it has already proved that thousands of arms that were not for hunters or farmers but were aimed at killing people have been recovered by the government.
Instead of calling this program a bad program, you should call this program a safety program that will benefit all Canadians and ensure that Canadians feel safe in their communities.
Government leader, your own Minister of Public Safety calls it a waste of money. Senator Moreau, if the minister himself admits this, why can’t the Prime Minister stop clinging to a program that has cost $742 million? Take that money instead, and I will tell you what Canadians want. They want that $742 million to go to more RCMP resources and officers. They want scanners for ports in order to deal with the problem of the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA, which is claiming we have a ton of illegal products entering through ports that are, right now, not being policed. That is what Canadians want. They want action, not virtue signalling.
Senator Housakos, you are well aware that the budget of the RCMP has been increased to tackle criminals in Canada.
Now, you were referring to yesterday’s unfortunate situation in Laval. Do you think that it was a gun designed for hunters that was used yesterday? It was a military gun, and those guns have no place to be here in Canada.
