The federal government got smart on the firearms law.
It’s time it got smart on the fertilizer emissions target as well as its oil emissions reduction targets. It’s time to back away from caps that ignore the role of Canada as a global leader in responsible commodity production.
Canada needs to champion low-emissions commodity production in a world that desperately needs safe, secure and regulated production.
We don’t need less production from Canada. We need more. The world needs what we produce.
The firearms amendments, which would have banned assault weapons but also appeared to catch many legitimate hunting guns in its net, caused much bad political blood to be spilled across the country, became yet another poisonous culture war divide, distracted the government and the opposition parties from productive issues, and created a scorching disincentive for the government to implement focused and worthwhile gun control regulations.
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