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RSS FeedsLiberals pledge to ban `assault-style´ firearms and let cities restrict handguns, Trudeau says in Toronto amid blackface scandal
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

20 september 2019 20:56:27

 
Liberals pledge to ban `assault-style´ firearms and let cities restrict handguns, Trudeau says in Toronto amid blackface scandal
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


On the second morning since Justin Trudeau’s campaign was rocked by racist images of him wearing blackface makeup, the Liberal leader tried to change the subject, announcing that his party will ban “assault-style” firearms and work with the provinces to allow Canadian municipalities to ban handguns.If elected on Oct. 2, the Liberals will make it illegal to own weapons like the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, made infamous in countless mass shootings south of the border, Trudeau said. “You do not need a military-style assault rifle — one designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time — to take down a deer,” Trudeau said, speaking at a hotel in the Toronto riding of Don Valley East on Friday morning. The platform stops short of calling for a national handgun ban.It was not immediately clear how exactly municipalities might impose a handgun ban within their borders. Premier Doug Ford has said he opposes a ban on handgun sales in Toronto.The Liberals have called the step too expensive for uncertain benefit to impose nationally. After taking a handful of questions on the proposal, Trudeau once again spoke to his regret for wearing blackface. “I have let a lot of people down and I am deeply sorry for it,” he said in response to a question on whether he feels secure in his leadership following a series of statements from prominent Liberal candidates expressing dismay at the images. The leader also clarified that a brief video in which he appears in blackface makeup was taken while he was working at a whitewater rafting facility in Quebec between 1992 and 1994. Because he had not remembered that incident, Trudeau said, he is wary to state definitively that more do not exist. The images of the leader — two show him in blackface at an “Arabian nights” party at the Vancouver private school where he taught in 2001 — have drawn worldwide attention, mockery and condemnatio ...


 
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