Down 20 rural seats, Liberals go back to the well on gun control

Rural Liberals warned that the government’s gun control policies could cost them their seat. Many of them didn’t make it past the election.

Former Toronto police chief Bill Blair is now Canada's federal public safety minister, pictured on Jan. 28, 2020, on the Hill, and is responsible for making good on Liberal Party election promises to ban assault-style semi-automatic rifles and bring in other new gun control measures. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 17, 2020

The Liberals are doubling down on gun control in the minority 43rd Parliament, despite losing most of their vulnerable rural ridings in last fall’s election after passing controversial gun control legislation. An analysis by...

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