Thu Dec 8, 2022 – 3:03 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — In a rare move in Canadian politics, a Liberal MP has broken ranks to say he is not “happy” with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal gun grab legislation, and said in clear terms he cannot support the pending law as written.
As reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Liberal MP for Yukon, Brendan Hanley, recently said many people in his territory “regularly hunt, either as a food source or for the recreational aspects of hunting,” and Trudeau’s gun grab Bill C-21 is “really upsetting.”
Hanley noted he is “not happy with this [Bill C-21],” and that he is not in a “position to support this bill at this point with those amendments in play.”
Trudeau’s Bill C-21, if passed, would stop all used handgun sales and severely restrict new sales.
After the debate period of the bill had finished, the Trudeau government hastily added new gun models to Bill C-21, including long guns used by hunters, which further alarmed citizens and provinces already wary of the measure.
Hanley noted that Canadians in rural areas, especially those living in the northern regions of Canada like the Yukon, need
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