From the office of MPP Bobbi Ann Brady
To The Haldimand Press
HALDIMAND—Last week Haldimand- Norfolk MPP Bobbi Ann Brady stood in the Ontario Legislature and asked Solicitor General Michael Kerzner if he will say “no” to using Ontario police resources to enforce the federal gun buyback.
“Minister, I come from a riding with a great deal of hunters, target shooters, and gun collectors. But I want to make it clear that these are not the folks shooting up cities – gangs and organized crime are largely responsible for that.”
Brady said that on October 27, she wrote to the Solicitor General asking if Ontario will be joining the prairie provinces, New Brunswick, and the Yukon in saying no to Justin Trudeau’s gun buyback. To date, she has not received an answer.
“I’ve read what the federal government is proposing. It’s not worth the paper it’s written on, and it certainly will not curb gun violence or crime. I know talking about guns makes some of you uncomfortable, and I’m sure some of you will peg me as some sort of gun-toting Beth Dutton; I’m not, which makes me more credible: I have no interest to protect here. In fact, if an idea was brought forward that would save lives, I’d be the first to stand in my place and vote in favour to help. Until then, we all need to exercise common sense,” Brady continued.
The Solicitor General stopped short of committing to not using valuable police resources on enforcing C21, but he did emphasize twice that law-abiding gun owners are not to blame for the rash of gang- and drug-related shootings.
MPP Brady emphasized that it’s a police resources issue not a firearms issue. If police partake in the buyback, it will remove them from our streets, put more power into the hands of criminals, and as a result, there will be fewer police to investigate domestic violence, homicides and gangs, and smuggling.
“Feel-good headlines on the six o’clock news never translate into good public policy, and in this case it gives the people of Ontario a false sense of security at their very large expense,” the local MPP continued.
