Tue Sep 27, 2022 – 6:36 pm EDT
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – The Alberta government said it will direct national police in the province to not comply with a semi-automatic gun buyback program enacted by the Canadian federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, Alberta Justice Minister and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro said that “we will not tolerate taking officers off the street in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearms owners.”
“Alberta will not assist the federal government in this or any federal effort to strip lawfully obtained personal property from a resident … This is not about keeping our community safe. It’s pure politics from the perspective of the federal government.”
Shandro said that he sent a letter to Deputy Commissioner Curtis Zablocki, the head of the Alberta division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), telling him that taking away people’s guns is “not an objective, priority or goal.”
Shandro told Zablocki that “the RCMP should refuse” to comply with the gun-buyback program.
He said the directive he sent to the RCMP was in response to a letter from Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.
Mendicino’s letter to
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