If you can’t do with your own property whatever you want, if it needs to be regulated and inspected and approved and controlled and taxed by government, then we are just pretending we have a full range of property rights. – (Bruce Pardy…professor of law at Queen’s University and the executive director of Rights Probe, a think tank focused on law and liberty in Canada)
18. Federal Gun Control Legislation (Bills C-21 and C-71) Alberta gun owners — many of them seniors and rural residents who have owned firearms for hunting and protection for generations — have strongly objected to sweeping federal gun control bills, viewing them as an attack on rural livelihoods and a law-abiding citizens while doing little to address gang violence in urban centres.