Global News published this video item, entitled “Do Canada’s gun control laws go far enough?” – below is their description.
With the push to get sensible firearm legislation passed in the U.S., Global News is taking a closer look at Canada’s own laws.
According to the Small Arms Survey, the U.S. has nearly half of the world’s civilian-owned guns — about 46 per cent — despite having less than five per cent of the population. Canada has less than two per cent of global gun ownership.
And while firearms are certainly less prevalent in Canada, gun crimes are on the rise. Mike Drolet looks at whether Canada’s laws are working.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.