Canadian Politics Today

in the news, the National Firearms Association that claims to be, "the leading voice for firearms rights", in Canada:

a House of Commons committee will be asked Monday (today) to censure the National Firearms Association (NFA) over comments the association’s president made in a recent conference call... comments that came the day after the Trudeau Liberal government introduced new firearms legislation that proposes a buyback program for about 1,500 different firearms... models that the government last May classified as prohibited - the NFA opposes that legislation.

Quote from: Sheldon Clare, president of the National Firearms Association

If they think that I have advocated violence in any way, they should have me charged. And I certainly have not. I’ve merely related comments from upset people who have a real big problem with tyranny. And I think that the virtue-signaling woke liberal left has a problem with being called out as being tyrants.

results of the censure/condemnation vote: the HoC Committee on Public Safety and Security voted to condemn comments made last week by the National Firearms Association. Liberal, NDP and BQ committee MPs all voted in favour... all 4 CPC MPs abstained.

so, of course, the CPC and its supporters deflected away criticism of the CPC abstain votes by highlighting the Liberal cabinet members abstaining in the HoC vote to declare that China is committing genocide against Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in its western Xinjiang region. Oh my - considering the Liberal cabinet abstained in consideration of a possible negative impact upon the '2 Michaels'... while the CPC MPs abstained so as not to be seen as being critical towards the National Firearms Association! Oh my!