Another Liberal Disaster: The Firearm Buyback Face-Planted in Real Life

The Liberal government’s firearms buyback program was supposed to make Canadians safer. Instead, a real-world pilot project just exposed it as another costly, ineffective, taxpayer-funded failure.In this Tap the Maple episode, we break down the shocking results of Ottawa’s own trial run in Cape Breton, where the federal government spent nearly $150,000 to collect just 25 firearms — a staggering $6,000 per gun — while doing absolutely nothing to stop criminal gun violence.Even worse, despite the pilot’s failure, the Liberals are pushing ahead with a nationwide confiscation scheme projected to cost up to $6 billion, targeting law-abiding hunters, farmers, and sport shooters instead of criminals who actually use illegal, smuggled firearms.Police unions, provincial governments, and frontline officers have all warned this program diverts resources away from fighting real crime — and now the numbers prove them right.This isn’t about public safety.It’s about optics, ideology, and control.And it’s just the latest example of a government that refuses to admit failure.Canadians deserve accountability — and it’s long overdue.Tap the Maple — where facts beat fear and receipts beat rhetoric.#canada #cdnpoli #politicalcommentary