Firearms remain a serious public health concern, even during a pandemic

We implore the federal government to take one decisive, achievable action right now: ban the new sale of military-style assault weapons.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured on the Hill on March 20, 2020, at a ministerial briefing for the media about the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Najma Ahmed, Heidi Rathjen, Wendy Cukier, Ken Price and Claire Smith

April 27, 2020

On behalf of Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns (CDPG), PolySeSouvient, the Coalition for Gun Control, and Danforth Families for Safe Communities, we are writing in deep sorrow. Like all Canadians, we grieve with the families and communities affected by the mass shooting in Nova Scotia last w...

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