Coalition For Gun Control (Canada)

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The Canadian version of the Coalition For Gun Control (several countries have organizations calling themselves the same thing) is the public front for Canadian gun grabber-in-chief Wendy Cukier. Of all Canadian anti-gun orgs, the CGC has been the most successful in capitalizing on the 1989 "Montreal Massacre" in their marketing and lobbying operations.

The Coalition for Gun Control (CFGC) is a professional victim’s organization whose raison d’être is to lobby the Canadian government to enact progressive firearm abolitionist legislation. Professor Wendy Cukier is the president and co-founder of this lobby group who is well known and generally discredited for creatively interpreting gun control statistics and zealously expounding unsubstantiated remarks that are empirically unsupported. Cukier is also a founding member of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) whose agenda is to hasten the Canadian adoption of the UN Small Arms Treaty that aims to ban civilian firearms ownership world wide.

Cukier has personal experience with gun violence while growing up in St. Catharines, Ontario. Two acquaintances were shot in a bar fight when she was a teen, another two committed suicide by gunshot, and friends of her sisters also committed suicide by gunshot. She also claims to have been profoundly affected the by the l’École Polytechnique incident in Montreal, when a deranged criminal executed 14 women. One of Cukier’s sisters lived in Montreal at the time of the incident which spurred her to subsequently found the (CFGC).

The (CFGC) claim that “people don't kill people, guns do” and staunchly contend that inanimate objects, mainly firearms, are responsible for homicide, femicide, suicide, and the like.

Many astute Canadians have discounted the suspect (CFGC) ideology and attribute Cukier’s persistent fear of firearms and armed citizens as stemming from her traumatic past experiences with criminal violence and self murder. Some believe her fear has manifested into ‘hoplophobia’ which the afflicted inanely believe inanimate instruments possess a will of their own, apart from that of their user.

Goals

Like all "gun control" groups, the ultimate objective of the CGC is the complete banning of ALL civilian firearm ownership, but they don't come out and say that. The stated aims, as taken from the group's website, include:

possession permits which are periodically renewed for ALL gun owners a cost-effective system to register all guns a total ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines controls on the sale of ammunition tougher restrictions on handguns

strict safe storage requirements education countering the romance of guns and the myth of arming for self-protection a ban on replica firearms measures to reduce the illegal importation of guns effective implementation of the law deterrence and prevention in the justice system

Supporters

The CGC regularly claims to be supported by "more than 300" Canadian organizations and "millions" of individual Canadians but no one seems to be able to track down a complete list of these orgs or people. Entries onto the following sections should include citations/sources wherever possible.

Individuals

The following are supporters of the CGC:

• Oscar Alvarado
• Elizabeth Mandelman

Organizations

The following organizations are believed to be actively supporting the Canadian CGC^{[Where does this come from?]}:

• Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters
• Canadian Association for Adolescent Health
• Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
• Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
• Canadian Association of Police Boards
• Canadian Criminal Justice Association
• Canadian Federation of University Women
• Canadian Police Association
• Canadian Public Health Association
• Canadian Labour Congress
• Consortium of 13 national Quebec women’s groups
• Dawson College Gun Control Committee
• Families of the victims of the Montreal Massacre
• Fraternité des policiers et policières de Montréal
• Fédération des femmes du Québec
• Fédération des policiers et policièresmunicipaux du Québec
• G-13 consortium of 13 national women’s groups in Quebec
• Jewish Women International of Canada
• Kenora Sexual Assault Centre
• La Fédération des femmes du Québec
• Le Barreau du Québec
• L’Association pour la santé publique du Québec also oppose plans todismantle the gun registry
• METRAC
• Montreal Assault Prevention Center
• National Council of Women of Canada
• Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women
• OAITH
• Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
• Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County
• YWCA Canada
• YWCA of Toronto