Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree faces intense scrutiny after a private, leaked audio recording surfaced over the weekend in which he discussed the federal “assault-style” firearms gun grab program, revealing candid remarks about the program’s motivations and enforcement challenges.
The Liberal government will begin its long-awaited gun buyback program for individuals next month with a pilot project based in Cape Breton, N.S.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree announced the pilot program in Ottawa on Tuesday, saying the buyback is voluntary and that “no one is having their weapon confiscated.”
“We want to be sure everything is working properly before we open the program nationwide later in the fall,” Anandasangaree said.
BREAKING:
Nathalie Provost, spokesperson for @Polysesouvient and MP & Secretary of State (Nature) @liberal_party for @MarkJCarney , just declared LIVE (in French) that the SKS must be part of the confiscation, AND WILL BE.
She’s still calling the shots; she’s the one…
— Frédéric Meunier (@meunierfredz) September 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA—Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree was on the defensive Monday after a leaked audio recording revealed him making “misguided” comments that critics charged undermine the contentious and long-delayed federal gun buyback program ahead of its start.
As first reported by the Star, Anandasangaree claimed in a secretly recorded conversation that Mark Carney’s government is forging ahead with the roughly $750-million Trudeau-era gun ban and buyback program because of electoral pressures from Quebec, despite questions about its effectiveness and stringent opposition from provinces, police and gun owners across the rest of the country.
OTTAWA—Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says he made “misguided” comments after a leaked audio recording reviewed by the Star reveals him claiming Mark Carney’s government is forging ahead with the Trudeau-era gun ban and buyback program because of electoral pressures from Quebec, despite stringent opposition from provinces, police and gun owners across the rest of the country.
It was one of many revelations made in a roughly 20-minute back-and-forth about the plan between Anandasangaree and his tenant, who lives in a Toronto residential property owned by the minister. The tenant, who is a frustrated gun owner, recorded the conversation discreetly because they were discussing issues at the home before the minister began talking about the buyback scheme.
OFFS. @fancypants_s https://t.co/L6KmQhfxXW
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) September 22, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Is the Carney government about to move forward with their gun confiscation program or is this simply a voluntary program to buy guns from legal owners? The real answer is it depends on who you talk to and perhaps what your political view of the situation is.
OTTAWA—The Ontario Provincial Police is refusing to participate in the Carney government’s upcoming gun buyback program, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Wednesday, as he vowed the federal government will still have a “robust” ability to collect banned weapons in the province.
The OPP’s refusal comes after months of negotiations and throws a wrench in Ottawa’s plans, with the provincial force responsible for more than a quarter of the policing in Ontario. It means the federal government will have to reach agreements with municipal police forces such as Toronto Police, Peel Police and others, while finding a solution to cover areas without a local force.
Has the OPP made any additional progress on the Sikh Shooter file? I know they arrested the genius who filmed his own vehicle but since then?
Mactier Ontario:
Punjabi Sikhs show no respect for Canadian firearms laws, fellow land users, and the environment.
Recklessly discharging guns, shooting signs and leaving spent shells and garbage everywhere.They are going to ruin everything for Canadians. pic.twitter.com/LgculvYIbc
— AwareBears (@bears_aware) August 24, 2025
Last Sunday, 46-year-old Abdul Aleem Farooqi was shot to death in his Vaughan home just after midnight. The shooter was part of a band of armed, masked intruders seeking to rob the house.
Farooqi was protecting his family when he died, and his children are now left without a father, and his wife without a husband.
On the same day in Welland, 25-year-old Daniel Senecal is alleged to have broken into another home and sexually abused a toddler while the parents slept. He was known to the police.
The controversy generated around charging a man for injuring an armed intruder who broke into his home in Lindsay, Ont., has ricocheted loudly and raised important questions that every citizen would wish to have answered clearly. The homeowner, Jeremy McDonald, was physically present when the alleged intruder, Michael Breen, damaged a screen and window in a forced illegal entry in the early hours of Aug. 18, and was allegedly carrying a crossbow, a potentially deadly weapon. He has been charged with related offences.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called President Trump “the gravest threat to American democracy.” Nonetheless, Schumer wants to erase the Second Amendment. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump a “racial arsonist” and urges supporters to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets.” Still, Jeffries wants to limit gun ownership and confiscate Americans’ firearms.
WARMINGTON: Catching wild shooters in Muskoka should be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel
The MacTier shooters have showed up every weekend this summer and left behind thousands of bullet holes and spent shell casings to highlight that.
It’s something many in the Georgian Bay and Muskoka region are wondering. It would not surprise members of a local snowmobile club who have been complaining about these reckless gunmen for two years.
Police just can’t catch these guys! They must be like super criminals!
WOW – These videos are from MUSKOKA…..
Peaceful Ontario Cottage country.
We’re in trouble, Canada. pic.twitter.com/hkjz3jmHYt
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) August 29, 2025
The gun control lobby is crowing today after a jury in Baltimore slapped a Maryland gun store with a $62 million verdict for “flooding the city” with unserialized firearms.
Baltimore, working hand-in-hand, with the gun control group Brady, sued Polymer80 and Hanover Armory in June, 2022, a couple of months before Joe Biden’s ATF began enforcing a rule treating “buy, build, shoot kits” as firearms that needed to include a serialized frame or receiver, even if it wasn’t in completed form when it was sold.
OTTAWA—Canada’s gun buyback scheme is in the “final stages” of design and will be completed “no later” than the end of 2026, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Monday, as he warned hesitant provinces and law enforcement agencies it’s their obligation to implement the law.
In an interview with the Star, Anandasangaree confirmed an October 2025 amnesty deadline will have to be pushed back, but reiterated the Carney government plans to move forward with the plan to buy back thousands of “assault-style” weapons it has banned since 2020.
A woman in Joliet, Illinois used her handgun to defend herself and her baby last Friday night, shooting and killing the stranger who broke in to her home.
According to Joliet police, the incident happened around 10:30 Friday evening, and thankfully the woman wasn’t defenseless when the intruder gained entry to her home.
There’s no real debate about 9/11 being the worst massacre in American history, at least within the context of someone or a group killing as many people as quickly as possible, generally in a single day.
But before then, there was another massacre that reigned supreme, and while it involved plenty of guns, making it an exception to my look at massacres of the past where they weren’t used, it’s actually a great example of why we need the Second Amendment.
See, this one was carried out by the United States government.
