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Public Safety Minister admits gun buyback program is waste of money and resources – 742,000,000 projected cost to taxpayers
From Conservative Party Communications
A decade of reckless Liberal soft-on-crime, bail-not-jail policies have left a majority of Canadians feeling unsafe in their own neighbourhoods with a justice system that works against them. Violent crime has increased by 55%, gun crime 130% and extortion 330%.
Instead of repealing their hug-a-thug laws that put criminals first and victims last, Mark Carney’s hapless Minister of Public Safety is pushing a failed gun buyback program that he admits is a waste of money that will do nothing to keep Canadians safe.
Yesterday, in a leaked recording, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree was caught telling the truth about the failed Liberal buyback boondoggle while breaching basic ethics:
The program is all for votes
“Quebec is in a different place than other parts of Canada, right? And this is something that is very much a big, big, big deal for many of the Quebec electorate that voted for us, right? And that’s one of the major things. I think it’s, I saw, I’m sure you’ve seen these articles where people said, you know, this is one of the things we should not execute, like as a change from Trudeau’s policies, but we’ve made the decision to go ahead.”
Carney forced me
“But this is the mandate I was given by Carney to complete this…if I were to redo this from scratch, I would have a very different process.”
I’ll pay you back
“In your case, what are your losses? You tell me, I’ll personally offset you.”
Ignore the law, I’ll bail you out
“I’m not going to send the police to you…I doubt (the program) is going to go that far…I will come and bail you out if that happens, I will. You call me.”
Mark Carney has admitted “the vast majority of firearms, illegal firearms, firearms used in crime come across our border,” yet the Liberals are continuing with a confiscation program that goes after legal, trained, tested and licensed Canadian firearms owners. That includes confiscating hunting rifles from Indigenous people exercising their treaty rights to hunt.
Anandasangaree’s buyback boondoggle is conservatively estimated to cost $742 million for a program the Minister himself admits is a waste of money and resources, pursued purely for political gain. $742 million represents 5,000 RCMP officers, 300 port scanners or 37,000 addiction treatment beds. That’s money that could go to restoring safety on our streets, ending gun smuggling and bringing our loved ones home drug-free.
Offering to bail out his tenant from criminal charges is not the first time Anandasangaree has been accused of not being impartial while upholding the law as Minister. After it was discovered he implored CBSA to overturn an immigration decision despite national security concerns, he was forced to recuse himself from files involving terrorist groups “to ensure that there is no perception of any conflict”. The Minister claimed he was simply helping a constituent, but that was also revealed to be a lie.
All of these failures stack on top of an abysmal record. The Minister has failed to ban the extortionist Bishnoi Gang and lost almost 600 non-citizen criminals in Canada, 70% of whom committed serious crimes such as sexual assault. In the pursuit of the buyback boondoggle, he’s also breaking his promise to add 1,000 RCMP and 1,000 CBSA officers.
These failures have real-world consequences: Canadians no longer feel safe in their own homes, and with good reason. This cannot go on. Mark Carney appointed Anandasangaree as Public Safety Minister. He must own up to his terrible judgment, hold his Minister accountable and fire Minister Anandasangaree.
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
You’ve probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change.
For several decades Gates poured billions of dollars into the climate industrial complex.
Some conservatives have sniffed that Bill Gates has shifted his position on climate change because he and Microsoft have invested heavily in energy intensive data centers.
AI and robotics will triple our electric power needs over the next 15 years. And you can’t get that from windmills.
What Bill Gates has done is courageous and praiseworthy. It’s not many people of his stature that will admit that they were wrong. Al Gore certainly hasn’t. My wife says I never do.
Although I’ve only once met Bill Gates, I’ve read his latest statements on global warming. He still endorses the need for communal action (which won’t work), but he has sensibly disassociated himself from the increasingly radical and economically destructive dictates from the green movement. For that, the left has tossed him out of their tent as a “traitor.”
I wish to highlight several critical insights that should be the starting point for constructive debate that every clear-minded thinker on either side of the issue should embrace.
(1) It’s time to put human welfare at the center of our climate policies. This includes improving agriculture and health in poor countries.
(2) Countries should be encouraged to grow their economies even if that means a reliance on fossil fuels like natural gas. Economic growth is essential to human progress.
(3) Although climate change will hurt poor people, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare. The biggest problems are poverty and disease.
I would add to these wise declarations two inconvenient truths: First: the solution to changing temperatures and weather patterns is technological progress. A far fewer percentage of people die of severe weather events today than 50 or 100 or 1,000 years ago.
Second, energy is the master resource and to deny people reliable and affordable energy is to keep them poor and vulnerable – and this is inhumane.
If Bill Gates were to start directing even a small fraction of his foundation funds to ensuring everyone on the planet has access to electric power and safe drinking water, it would do more for humanity than all of the hundreds of billions that governments and foundations have devoted to climate programs that have failed to change the globe’s temperature.
Stephen Moore is a co-founder of Unleash Prosperity and a former Trump senior economic advisor.
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
At Tesla’s Austin headquarters, investors backed Musk’s 12-step plan that ties his potential trillion-dollar payout to a series of aggressive financial and operational milestones, including raising the company’s valuation from roughly $1.4 trillion to $8.5 trillion and selling one million humanoid robots within a decade. Musk hailed the outcome as a turning point for Tesla’s future.
“What we’re about to embark upon is not merely a new chapter of the future of Tesla but a whole new book,” Musk said, as The New York Times reported.
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The decision cements investor confidence in Musk’s “moonshot” management style and reinforces the belief that Tesla’s success depends heavily on its founder and his leadership.
Tesla Annual meeting starting now
https://t.co/j1KHf3k6ch— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2025
“Those who claim the plan is ‘too large’ ignore the scale of ambition that has historically defined Tesla’s trajectory,” the Florida State Board of Administration said in a securities filing describing why it voted for Mr. Musk’s pay plan. “A company that went from near bankruptcy to global leadership in E.V.s and clean energy under similar frameworks has earned the right to use incentive models that reward moonshot performance.”
Investors like Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood defended Tesla’s decision, saying the plan aligns shareholder rewards with company performance.
“I do not understand why investors are voting against Elon’s pay package when they and their clients would benefit enormously if he and his incredible team meet such high goals,” Wood wrote on X.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management — one of Tesla’s largest shareholders — broke ranks, however, and voted against the pay plan, saying that the package was excessive.
“While we appreciate the significant value created under Mr. Musk’s visionary role, we are concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk,” the firm said.
The vote comes months after Musk wrapped up his short-lived government role under President Donald Trump. In February, Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team sparked a firestorm when they announced plans to eliminate the U.S. Agency for International Development, drawing backlash from Democrats and prompting protests targeting Musk and his companies, including Tesla.
Back in May, Musk announced that his “scheduled time” leading DOGE had ended.
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