Gunning for Scarborough

And platform planks aplenty

ABOVE THE FOLD

HANDGUN BAN, HOW? — The Grits are promising to outlaw handguns across Ontario in their first year in office, should they form government in June.

But when pressed on how they’d actually do that, Liberal captain STEVEN DEL DUCA was cagey.

Del Duca promised to “examine every option” and work with the feds and municipalities to ban the sale, possession, transport and storage of handguns. The party would also sign on to Ottawa’s buyback program and work with the feds to crack down on cross-border gun smuggling.

Context: Gun violence has long been a cause for Scarborough—Guildwood Grit MITZIE HUNTER, who has pushed the government to treat it as a public health emergency.

Hunter’s stomping grounds of Scarborough — an electorally competitive territory — has been stunned by a recent spate of shootings, especially involving youth.

— BACKFIRE: The NDP took the opportunity to slam the Grits track record, saying that after fifteen years in power “with the tools to address gun violenc…