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		</div><p>Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has said the country is banning the use and trade of assault-style weapons immediately.</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau cited numerous mass shootings in the country including the killing of 22 people in Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19.</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau has said the government was on the verge of bringing in stricter gun control legislation in March, but halted plans when the pandemic hit.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We said we’d ban assault-style firearms in Canada, and today we’re doing exactly that. Watch live as Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/BillBlair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillBlair</a> and I announce the steps we’re taking to strengthen gun control across the country: <a href="https://t.co/qshNT9RXwW">https://t.co/qshNT9RXwW</a></p>
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<p>Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, but Mr Trudeau said they are happening more often.</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau noted he was nearby in Montreal when a gunman killed 14 women and himself at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique college in 1989.</p>
<p>He announced the ban of over 1,500 models and variants of assault-style firearms, including the AR-15 and other weapons that have been used in a number of mass shootings in the United States</p>
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<p>“Canadians need more than thoughts and prayers,” Mr Trudeau said.</p>
<p>The cabinet order does not forbid owning any of the military-style weapons and their variants but it does ban the use and trade in them.</p>
<p>He said the order has a two-year amnesty period for current owners, and there will be a compensation programme that will require a bill passed in Parliament.</p>
<figure id="attachment_154434" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-154434" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-154434" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/31D37D10-76C1-4524-BF35-FF84D99A0E96.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-154434" class="wp-caption-text">A makeshift shrine honouring RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson is shown outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia after a mass shooting</figcaption></figure>
<p>In the meantime, they can be exported, returned to manufacturers, and transported only to deactivate them or get rid of them.</p>
<p>In certain limited circumstances, they can be used for hunting.</p>
<p>“You do not need an AR-15 to take down a deer,” Mr Trudeau said.</p>
<p>“So, effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade, assault weapons in this country.”</p>
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<p>Mr Trudeau said the weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time.</p>
<p>“There is no use, and no place, for such weapons in Canada,” he said.</p>
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