Are Canadians About To Lose The SKS? Mark Carney Just Signaled Another Gun Ban Is Coming

The Montreal shooting on Monday has already become a political weapon.

Before the investigation is even complete, the Mayor of Montreal is calling for tougher gun control and PolySeSouvient is demanding an SKS ban. And today Mark Carney signaled that new gun legislation is coming.

The SKS is Canada's most popular rifle. Between 600,000 and 1 million are currently in the hands of legal Canadian gun owners. It is non-restricted. It is widely used by Indigenous communities across the country for its affordability and reliability in harsh northern climates.

And the government wants to ban it.

We have seen this before. After the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting, the Liberals used an Order in Council to push through sweeping gun bans overnight with no parliamentary debate, no vote, and no due process for legal gun owners. Are we are about to see the same playbook used again?

Tonight I am joined by independent journalist Jason Lavigne for another episode of East Meets West to break down what Mark Carney actually said today, what an expert-led firearms classification system controlled by the RCMP would actually mean, what happens to the current gun amnesty and the CCFR Supreme Court challenge if new legislation moves forward, and why legal gun owners keep paying the price for crimes they did not commit.

We are also joined at 7:30PM by Jeff Evely — the man who was fined $28,872.50 for taking a walk in the woods of Nova Scotia — to speak about the outcome of his case.

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Bill C-34 is being sold as a bill designed to protect children online.

But is that all it does?

Tonight, Professor Bruce Pardy joins me to break down Bill C-34, the Digital Safety Act and the proposed Digital Safety Commission of Canada.

Together, we'll examine what the bill actually says, how it could be implemented, and whether Canadians should be paying closer attention to the powers it creates.

We'll discuss:

• What qualifies as "harmful content"

• The difference between the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act

• Age verification requirements for online platforms

• Data retention requirements

• Access to electronic data

• The powers of the proposed Digital Safety Commission

• Freedom of expression, privacy rights and government oversight

• What this bill could mean for Canadians, online platforms and public discourse

Is Bill C-34 simply about protecting children online?

Or does it create something much bigger?

Join us live and decide for yourself.

Bruce Pardy is a Professor of Law at Queen's University, Executive Director of Rights Probe, Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and one of Canada's leading voices on constitutional law, civil liberties and administrative governance.

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Is the 2026 Long Form Census unconstitutional?

Tonight on The Political Orphans, Nico Lagan is joined by Charter advocate and Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyer Hatim Kheir to break down the legal challenge against the 2026 long-form census.

Canadians are being told that the census is mandatory under the Statistics Act. But how far does that authority actually go?

Can the government compel Canadians, under threat of penalty, to answer deeply personal questions about their household, identity, health, work, housing, and private life?

In this episode, we discuss:

• Whether Canadians are legally required to complete the census

• The difference between the short-form and long-form census

• Whether Canadians can request the short form instead

• What penalties exist under the Statistics Act

• Whether the long-form census violates Charter privacy protections

• Whether selecting only 25% of households for the long form raises legal questions

• What authority Statistics Canada enumerators actually have

• Where census authority ends and private property rights begin

• The constitutional challenge launched against parts of the 2026 long-form census

This is not about refusing basic population counting.

This is about asking whether mandatory census power gives the government unlimited authority to collect deeply personal information from Canadians.

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