TheGunBlog.ca — The Canadian government won’t decide on any new gun confiscations at its cabinet retreat today and tomorrow, the Globe and Mail reported last night, citing Minister of Border Security and Organized-Crime Reduction Bill Blair.

The minister excluded the possibility of a decision during the gathering today and tomorrow in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and said the cabinet will be talking about gun policy during its meetings, the newspaper reported.

“I think this is a longer-term, more complex discussion,” Blair said, according to the Globe.

Ottawa says it won’t move on handgun ban ahead of federal cabinet retreat in B.C. https://t.co/1cyfcobcy5 @GlobeBC pic.twitter.com/gm3h5COKNl

— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) August 22, 2018

The newspaper’s Ottawa bureau chief reported July 26, citing an unnamed senior official from an unidentified organization, that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would decide in mid-August whether to ban handguns from federally licensed gun owners, possibly by including the measure in Bill C-71.

“That examination is under way,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told reporters in Nanaimo yesterday, according to the Globe. “I don’t have a specific timeline other than to say I understand the urgency of the matter and that the people who are making these representations want to see a serious consideration of this idea in a timely way.”

Two days earlier, Toronto City Council had voted by a landslide to ask the federal government to confiscate all handguns and all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns from all licensed gun owners in Canada.

In case a handgun ban failed, council requested new laws to “create gun repositories” where lawful owners across the country would be forced to store all their rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers.

The government told TheGunBlog.ca the next day that it’s “open to all possible options.”

Since then, Toronto Mayor John Tory has asked the city’s 100,000 men and women with a firearm Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) to go somewhere else. Montreal city council voted unanimously two days ago to ask the federal government to confiscate all handguns and all co-called “assault rifles” from all PAL holders in Canada. Others in politics and media have also targeted licensed gun owners for mass confiscation.

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