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If there was any doubt that the Trudeau government’s plans for new gun control measures were more about politics than public safety, that doubt evaporated on Friday.

That was the day that Bill Blair, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, gave an interview to the Globe and Mail.

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“There are some weapons that are currently available in our society that represent an unacceptable risk,” Blair told the Globe while talking about a potential “assault weapons” ban.

The Liberals have been floating the idea of banning handguns or some types of rifles for more than a year now. Blair did extensive consultation across the country speaking to activist groups on all sides and engaging the public.

The result of that consultation was a Canadian public that told the government to deal with gun violence in our cities but rejected the idea of a gun ban.

Being the party that promises to make all decisions based on science and evidence, Trudeau’s Liberals are now talking about a ban of certain kinds of rifles.