Manitoba doesn’t want RCMP aiding Trudeau’s gun grab scheme
Rachel EmmanuelEarlier this week, the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan announced they told the federal government their provincial RCMPs would not be made available to help the federal government’s gun confiscation efforts.
On Thursday, Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen said he told Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino the so-called buyback program unnecessarily targets lawful gun owners while having little impact on criminals.
“In Manitoba’s view, any buyback program cannot further erode precious provincial police resources, already suffering from large vacancy rates, from focusing on investigation of violent crime,” Goertzen said in a statement on Facebook.
“We will be bringing these concerns, along with the shared concern of Saskatchewan and Alberta, directly to the federal government next month in meetings of Ministers of Justice and Ministers of Public Safety.”
The statement is not as strong as those issued by Alberta and Saskatchewan, who said they informed the RCMP to ignore orders from Ottawa to aid in the firearms confiscation program.
As first reported by The Counter Signal, the Government of Alberta sent instructions to the RCMP K-Division, the arm of the federal police force with authority in Alberta, to ignore orders from the Trudeau Liberals to confiscate firearms.