Canada Guns

Canada half-assed it and slow-walked it.

It's what we do. We lose the political wherewithal to do something correctly, and instead do the politically easy and/or cheapest parts only and leave the hard-but-worthwhile work on the floor. We'll spend more time on the committee to support a motion to study the issue, which means that when it comes time to do something, all the will is gone and the recommendations are either watered down and/or hopelessly politicized.

See: drug decriminalization, housing, immigration.

(side note: the Liberals are absolute masters of this sort of milquetoast, C-minus, least-we-can-do, three-years-of-committees policymaking, but the Conservatives are often just as bad; they (the Cons) are just willing to do more because performative cruelty engages their base)