William Sterling Blair PC COM MP President of the Privy Council - GUN CONTROL

June 3, 2022

Neil E. Thomson

825 Alview Crescent

Kamloops, BC

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Email: nthomson20@gmail.com

 

William Sterling Blair PC COM MP

President of the Privy Council

2263 Kingston Road

Scarborough, Ontario

M1N 1T8

Email: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca

 

Dear Mr. Blair,

 

RE: The recent bout of gun control

This is letter is directed to you as President of the Privy Council.

I can demonstrate clearly that there is no justification for the two most recent government gun control initiatives. When the issue is contextualized to societal risks generally, a person legally owning a firearm of any kind fails to make muster as a justification for a governmental intrusion on the right to own a firearm. While there are no expressed rights to owning firearms in Canadian law, there is a fulsome body of law in relation to property rights. There is also a long-standing cultural and (British / Canadian) legal tradition dating back 400 years in support of citizen ownership of firearms. Further, and more importantly, Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is excited in relation to this matter, both under the rubric of liberty generally and security of person. Further again, Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is excited, as these government actions unjustifiably discriminates against an unenumerated class of people.  I can assure you and your colleagues there will be court challenges in relation to this reality.

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 We are at a critical juncture in Canada, the confluence of factors has emerged: post-Covid realities, the fragmentation of our national narrative and societal fissures that have emerged from these events, the “real” two solitudes in Canada - rural and urban are diverging rapidly and, finally, the events in Ukraine are driving the imperative to vigorously prepared for national defence. The gun control initiatives of the present government are serving to amplify division generally.  Furthermore, the gun control initiatives are attacking and alienating the very law-abiding citizens who possess the fortitude and predilection to come to arms should it be required.

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As a nation, now more than ever, we need to pay close attention to the way we deploy resources. Any energy directed toward political hobbyhorses at this point is folly. To waste money on these programs at any point in history would be frivolous, as the million law-abiding citizens affected offer no public risk – this fact is self-evident; they are all vetted in relation to criminality.

One understands the challenges of managing a pandemic, it must be said, however, that there have been many Charter Right infringements and breaches throughout the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, there was declining attention to Charter Rights, the pandemic accelerated a negative trend, a negative trend aggravated by the subject matter herein. The values that have come to expression in the Bill of Rights and the Charter of Rights and Freedom hold as equity some 800 years of blood and toil. My father gave the best six years of his life and came to an early death for the cause of freedom, my Uncle Omer lays at the bottom of the English Channel having been shot from the sky at 23 years old and I’ve spent the last 20 years of my life working in defence of Charter Rights. You have dedicated your entire career to peace order and good governance. I hope you share my profound dismay at the trivialization of what are our core values as a nation, for what is at best, political pandering.

 Kind Regards,

  

Neil E. Thomson