Thu Dec 15, 2022 – 4:27 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s looming federal gun grab legislation is on hold until well into next year after pushback from opposition MPs.
While Liberal Party MPs on the House of Commons public safety committee had tried to ram Trudeau’s gun grab legislation, Bill C-21, through before the Christmas break, opposition MPs on the committee voted 6 to 5 Tuesday to block the effort.
The effort to rush the passage of the bill was led by committee chair and Liberal MP Ron McKinnon, who said MPs were “out of time” to get the legislation passed before the break for the holidays.
However, due to a joint effort by committee MPs from the Conservative Party, the New Democratic Party (NDP), and the Bloc Québécois, the bill will first have to go through no less than eight public hearings in the new year.
According to one MP, the reason for the public hearings is for the committee itself to travel “across Canada as soon as possible to rural, northern, and Indigenous communities to hear from impacted individuals.”
In response, McKinnon said that any public hearings would mean
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