Lawsuit against Trudeau's gun grab will move forward

The Justice Centre announced that it will be moving forward in applying to challenge the constitutionality of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Cabinet Order of confiscating property that was legally acquired by Canadians, according to the Justice Centre's website.

The Justice Centre reported: "The Justice Centre’s intervention application will focus on the Constitution’s allocation of legislative power to Parliament, and the Constitution’s inherent safeguards which are intended to prevent the tyranny of a government that operates independently of democratically-elected representatives. The Justice Centre is preparing its intervention application and will release further details in the days ahead."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on May 1 that the Canadian government had issued a ban on "models and variants" of firearms that he referred to as "military-grade assault-style weapons."

This came shortly after the Nova Scotia shooting in mid-April, ending the lives of 22 people.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair went on to say that "effective immediately, these firearms cannot be legally used, sold or imported in our country. As of today, the market for assault weapons in our country is closed."

As a response to this decision, 180,000 Canadians signed a petition against this decision in just over a week. The petition asked that the government "scrap" the Order in Council from May 1, and instead requested the government introduce a piece of legislation that would target criminals and bar firearms from being smuggled into the country.

The Justice Centre continued: "Since COVID-19 lockdowns were imposed in March, Trudeau’s government has done its utmost to avoid checks and balances, by suspending Parliament and by its unsuccessful attempt to shield federal government spending from Parliamentary scrutiny through to the end of 2021. Trudeau has sequestered himself away in Rideau Cottage, where he speaks only to selected media."

"Trudeau’s arbitrary confiscation of private property from Canadians was also not effected via Parliament. No public consultation, debate, or study occurred in advance of this mass confiscation. Very little explanation has been given by Trudeau’s Cabinet to explain how or why it selected the firearms that it is now confiscating from law-abiding citizens."

Jay Cameron, Litigation Manager for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, stated that "the arbitrary and opportunistic confiscation of property from Canadians by a Federal Cabinet operating behind closed doors, with no transparency and without accountability to an independent Parliament, is little better than theft."

“Canada is a democracy, but Trudeau’s Cabinet passed this Order-in-Council during a pandemic and during a Parliamentary shut down when this Order-in-Council has nothing to do with COVID-19. This looks like an effort to avoid the scrutiny of the representatives of Canadians in Parliament. Our position is that the Order-in-Council is outside the bounds of the rule of law and the Constitution.”