“… hospitals are flooded wait times are through the roof. You can’t get a MRI or a CAT scan in reasonable amount of time, people are being offered MAID instead of help but yet here we are spending nearly $1 billion probably more on something that will do absolutely nothing to curb crime.”
The federal Liberals’ gun buyback scheme just keeps getting more and more expensive and more and more useless by the week.
Late last year, the feds conducted a trial run of their confiscation program, more than five years after they first announced it. For six weeks on Cape Breton, regional police accepted banned guns that were being turned in by their owners in return for compensation.
Ottawa had predicted more than 200 guns would be collected during the trial run. In all, Cape Breton police took in just 25 guns at a cost to federal taxpayers nearly $150,000. That works out to $6,000 per gun.
That’s not what owners were paid. People who turned in their guns voluntarily received about $700 per gun, the average cost of a rifle or shotgun in Canada.
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By Lorne Gunter