The federal government’s firearms ban and buyback program has so far cost $3.7 million, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), while noting that no guns have been bought back as yet.
As part of the program, the federal government created the Firearms Buyback Secretariat inside the Department of Public Safety in June 2020. The CTF says it has received a statement from the department showing that of the $3.7 million cost, $2.1 million has been spent on salaries, and $1.6 million on operations.
“The feds are spending millions of dollars before reimbursing a single gun owner, so it’s a good bet that this bill will keep ballooning,” said Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the CTF, in a statement, adding that the program is going to be “another taxpayer boondoggle.”…