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Minister backtracks on gun buyback remark
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September 23, 2025
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1:04Now PlayingGary Anandasangaree, Canada’s public safety minister, said his comment to personally pay the difference his tenant could lose for giving up his guns through a federal buyback program, was ‘wrong.’
Audio of the conversation, recorded without Anandasangaree’s knowledge, was leaked to a Canadian gun lobby group on Sunday.
Anandasangaree announced the next phase of Ottawa’s firearm buyback program on Tuesday, along with a pilot project in Nova Scotia, which will see local law enforcement in charge of collecting decommissioned guns.
In the House of Commons, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre seized on Anandasangaree's comments on the recording as evidence the minister doesn't believe in the buyback.
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