🧵 It’s not only assault rifles that Erin O’Toole wants to legalize.

His promises to the gun lobby will bring in thousands of guns that have never been legal in Canada, like concealable pistols, combat shotguns, and anti-material rifles. During his leadership campaign, Erin O’Toole was presented with this list of requests by gun lobbyists.

Almost all of their requests went directly into his platform, including the Simplified Classification System.

This morning, my team was informed that a large number of our signs had been taken from lawns and dumped in a wooded area. This type of behaviour is criminal, undemocratic, and un-Canadian. 1/4 These signs had been put up in front yards across Scarborough Southwest by a hard-working group of volunteers. If your lawn had one of the signs that were taken, please email my team and info@votebillblair.ca - we'll get one back-up right away. 2/4

Si nous voulons gagner la lutte contre la COVID-19, nous devons prendre des mesures basées sur des faits et non sur la désinformation et la peur. FAIT : Les frontières du Canada sont fermées aux voyages non essentiels depuis plus d'un an. ⤵️ Il y a 16 mois, le Canada est devenu l'un des premiers pays à appliquer des mesures de dépistage renforcées à la frontière pour détecter la COVID-19, bien avant que l'OMS ne déclare une pandémie mondiale. Ces mesures s'appliquent maintenant à tous les voyageurs.

We have to take action based on facts and evidence—not fear and misinformation—if we want to win the fight against COVID-19. FACT: Canada’s borders have been closed to non-essential travel for more than a year. Thread ⤵️ It’s been 16 months since Canada became one of the first countries to enforce enhanced screening measures at our border to detect COVID-19, long before the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. These measures now apply to all travellers.

This week is #EmergencyPreparedness Week! And @Safety_Canada has come prepared with many tips and tricks on how to keep you and your loved ones safe in case of an emergency.

To see how you can #GetPrepared ⤵️ As the weather changes and the impacts of climate change are felt more and more, all Canadians should prepare an emergency kit for weather-related emergencies.

To see how: getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/hzd/index-…

Aujourd'hui, cela fait un an que notre gouvernement a choisi d’en faire plus que d'offrir seulement des pensées et des prières en réponse à la violence liée aux armes à feu.

https://twitter.com/BillBlair/status/1256265117798469632

Le 1er mai 2020, nous avons pris des mesures décisives pour interdire la vente, l'utilisation et l'importation de 1 500 modèles d’armes à feu de type assaut conçues pour un usage militaire.

Today marks 1 year since our government chose to do more than offer only thoughts and prayers in response to gun violence.

On May 1, 2020, we took decisive action to prohibit the sale, use, and importation of 1,500 assault-style firearms designed for military use.

https://twitter.com/BillBlair/status/1256265604253855746

In Canada and around the world, we’ve seen examples of the devastation that gun violence can cause – at École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1989, in Quebec City in 2017, and most recently in Nova Scotia last year.

Nous savons à quel point la pandémie de la #COVID19 a été difficile pour les petites entreprises. Aujourd'hui, j'ai rencontré Mike et Jen, propriétaires de @littlechiefdog à St Catherines, pour discuter de la façon dont leur entreprise a été touchée par la pandémie... ... et comment le #Budget2021 aidera les propriétaires d'entreprises comme eux.

La pandémie évolue, nous aussi. Le #Budget2021 prolongera la Subvention salariale d'urgence du Canada, la Subvention d'urgence du Canada...

In his campaign for the Conservative leadership, Andrew Scheer sought support from the gun lobby. He took their money & votes & in exchange promised to lift restrictions on large capacity magazines so that assault rifles could shoot dozens of bullets without having to be reloaded He promised to give the gun lobby control of the reclassification of weapons. He promised to weaken background checks. His members have said they want to “normalize” the AR 15 assault rifle, to make it unrestricted.