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Gun-control group to MPs: Vote against new bill

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 26 Mar, 2021 07:29 PM

A leading gun-control group is urging MPs to vote against the Liberal government's new firearms bill, saying it is too weak to salvage.

In a letter sent out this week, PolySeSouvient says the recently tabled legislation is a Liberal capitulation to the firearms lobby and amounts to throwing in the towel on gun control.

The letter from the group is signed by Nathalie Provost, who was shot four times during the 1989 attack by a gunman at Montreal's Ecole polytechnique.

It was sent to all MPs but Conservative members, given the party's opposition to the bill over concerns it unfairly targets responsible gun owners but not criminals.

We are asking the @liberal_party government to withdraw #BillC21, which we consider it too weak to salvage, and should the legislation proceed, we are calling on MPs who support #GunControl to vote it down at second reading in the House of Commons #cdnpoli https://t.co/bbUoUFyHgb
— PolySeSouvient / PolyRemembers (@Polysesouvient) March 26, 2021

PolySeSouvient wants the government to withdraw the bill and, should the legislation proceed, calls on MPs to vote it down at second reading in the House of Commons.

NDP public safety critic Jack Harris suggests there is general support in his party for the bill, but added he wants to hear from witnesses at a Commons committee.

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