I’m with you. Different initial approaches aside, seems like a missed opportunity to not have a predetermined set of escalations.

Possession of a prohibited device can legally land you in a 10 year imprisonment however, we all know our prisons are not nearly big enough to hold ~300,000 new criminals so I suspect if people are caught with these prohibited firearms they’ll strip your PAL/RPAL and throw you on probation/house-arrest.

Still, making thousands of people criminals from something they had legally purchased is not a good rep.

When it’s effecting Olympic & IPSC sport shooting I would argue and say yes, there are reasons to own these firearms.

There is also varmint control, most people opt for semi-auto .22lr rifles which the majority have been banned.

If our government’s Wildlife Conservation Officers believe the use semi-automatic rifles is the best choice for wildlife/grizzly defence, why can’t we have access to the same tools?

And ultimately these are not weapons of warfare otherwise why would they be legal to purchase for the last 30 years, NATO rejected sending these firearms to Ukraine and our public safety minister blatantly admitted that this program was for political points in Quebec in that leaked audio.

Can anyone here justify owning the guns the government is buying back?

So the real problem comes when those who chose not to participate face more strict consequences for not participating?

The problem is the criminal liability if the gov doesn’t roll back the OIC’s or extend the amnesty. If I recall correctly they legally can’t just unprohibit firearms, some clause in a bill from a previous administration, they need to revoke the OIC’s starting from 2020.

I guess they can just not participate?

While Lemmy doesn't have a wiki yet, you can totally have a calendar elsewhere to then add to the sidebar and/or as a pinned post in the community. There are also some bots that you can use to automatically post content from an RSS feed.

We have previously considered running an instance of Mobilizon, which is another event sharing platform that federates, but we weren't sure if there was interest for it. Mobilizon/Gancio do seem like decent platforms for what you are trying to do. If there is enough interest in having our non-profit (Fedecan) run an instance of one of them, we're still open to doing it!

Since this community is still fairly small, you might not get that many people familiar with Gancio here. You could try asking in !fediverse@lemmy.world or a similar community.