Last month, the public safety minister's office said the program would launch ‘before the end of 2025.’ It has given no reason for the latest delay

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is pushing back the expected launch of its compensation program for individual gun owners, whose firearms the government has banned, from this fall until January 2026.

Back in September, when Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree announced that the government would be piloting a small-scale version of the program in parts of Cape Breton, N.S., the minister stated that the goal was to ensure it ran smoothly “before we open the program nationwide later in the fall.”

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A Public Safety Canada webpage dedicated to providing users with information on the program also states fall as the

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