So, after this weekend's events, I went full Tony Soprano and have been voraciously consuming all things I can find about this unique 14th Waffen SS / Canada intersection.

I found a lot of interesting stuff. This thread aims to be a bibliography of that stuff. And if that sounds unprofessional, it's by design; I want to ensure everyone knows I'm not a historian nor am I any kind of expert. I just research a lot of stuff.

Also, this thread will be terse, because I want to keep it as short as possible. So... let's start!

Here we go again; it's Tuesday so that means another SECU live tweet thread... let's dive right in with Kristina Michaud opening the meeting talking about the letter she authored asking for more witness testimony... She's making the case for more witnesses by saying government officials can basically only say so much, while also explaining that she did not approach the CPC on her letter asking for more witnesses as the CPC had already said no more witnesses way earlier in the C-21 hearings.

Wondering what's going on in SECU?

Well, Murray Smith is answering questions from @Taleeb about what the Firearms Reference Table is and what role it fulfills.

I'll be keeping an eye on it as much as I can today and updating here as we go. @Taleeb Now @Taleeb is asking Smith to explain what the 3 classifications of firearms are.

WHEEEEEEEEE #SECU! Skipped the last one because it was pretty political, but Murray Smith is coming to this one, so here come the live-Tweets... Zimmer opens the meeting by asking if there are hunting rifles on the prohib list. Justice officials clarify they cannot say if a gun is a hunting gun or not, just if it's prohib. Zimmer redirects the question then to Daly and Smith; witnesses appearing from the RCMP.

Short thread with thoughts on the gun ban announced today: @GlenMotz was probably closest to the pin during the entire testimony when he expressed some (even sarcastic) sympathy for the Liberals on this file. They've painted themselves into a corner on guns.

🧵 The rhetoric the gov't has been spewing on guns has piled up around them, and at this point, they seem to feel they have no option but to maintain this trajectory of ever-increasing gun bans to satiate their voter base.

But could this be the bridge too far?

So like, obviously this handgun ban is pants-on-head stupid. But something that's being kind of overshadowed by the stupidity of the ban is how this government's handling of the gun file is exposing them as more than a little authoritarian. Loooong thread... 1/n In the wake of the 2021 elxn, the big story was the dismal result; Trudeau's Liberals seeing their vote totals slump from nearly 7M votes in 2015 to 6M in 2019 to just 5.5M in 2015 - and in both 2019 and 2021, receiving a few hundred thousand *less* votes than the CPC. 2/n