Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is lending her support to a gun control advocacy group as it urges the federal government to complete a list of banned assault-style weapons before a federal buyback program comes into effect.
PolySeSouvient, a group that represents survivors and families of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, joined Plante at Montreal City Hall on Tuesday.
“I’m confident that the federal government has everything it needs to do what they said they would last year … and put all the assault weapons on the list in order to complete the buyback program,” Plante said.
“There’s no magic solution, there has to be different levels, different types of government solutions and this is one that only the federal government can put together.”
The gun control group met one year ago with federal Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who the group says assured its members the list would be completed by this …