Canada's Trudeau Announces Bill to Ban New Handguns

Jun 01, 2022 View Original Article
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"It also proposes harsher penalties for gun smugglers and traffickers, and aims to provide law enforcement with new tools like wiretapping to investigate crimes involving guns, Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said."
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"Bill C-21 would also create a new red flag law to let courts call on people who are considered a danger to themselves or others to surrender their firearms to law enforcement."
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"But then-President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions."
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"Trump placed the organization on a terrorism blacklist."
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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : It also proposes harsher penalties for gun smugglers and traffickers, and aims to provide law enforcement with new tools like wiretapping to investigate crimes involving guns, Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said.
37% : Bill C-21 would also create a new "red flag" law to let courts call on people who are considered a danger to themselves or others to surrender their firearms to law enforcement.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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