At the end of a busy day at the United Nations on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked by a reporter how he could still have confidence in Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, who has been staggered this week by the release of a recorded conversation in which he casts some doubt on the government's buyback program for "assault-style" firearms .

"Let's first put this in context, which is that we're talking about fulfilling a campaign promise. We ran on this first and foremost. Secondly, we're talking about taking guns off the street in a voluntary fashion," he said.

"Decisions have been taken by Parliament, in previous parliaments, to ban them. So we have a [mechanism] in place in order for people to return them, consistent with decisions of Parliament, consistent with

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