The Manitoba government has joined Alberta and Saskatchewan in pushing back against the federal government’s planned gun confiscation program as part of its mandatory buyback program for now-banned firearms.
“Manitoba has consistently stated that our approach to gun violence is to focus on those who use weapons in crime, not law abiding gun owners,” said Manitoba Minister of Justice and Attorney General Kelvin Goertzen, in a Facebook post on Sept. 28.
Goertzen said he wrote to federal public safety minister Marco Mendicino on Sept. 13 informing him of Manitoba’s concerns that the confiscation program would “erode” policing resources in the province….