MPs careful not to condemn U.S. gun laws after Las Vegas mass shooting, but NDP MP Dubé says it’s an ‘unsustainable situation’

Although federal politicians were careful not to criticize Americans on what they should do with their gun laws, one lawmaker told The Hill Times that it is about time they acknowledge they have a problem with lax rules for firearms.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, Liberal MP Bill Blair, Conservative MP Erin O'Toole, and NDP MP Matthew Dubé.The Hill Times file photographs

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BY JOLSON LIM

October 9, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—Some Canadian MPs offered measured criticism of U.S. gun laws in the wake of the shooting rampage at a country music festival in Las Vegas Oct. 1 that left 59 people dead and 489 wounded, saying the incident illustrates the differences between the co...

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