OTTAWA—Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?

The Liberal government vowed once more in the April election campaign that it will finally complete its long-delayed plan to buy back more than a 100,000 long guns it has banned across the country. But Prime Minister Mark Carney is all but certain to need one more deadline extension.

Ottawa appears to be moving ahead with efforts to get police forces , or anyone else, to take on the task of collecting the weapons from gun owners, but with no plan announced yet and a looming deadline , stakeholders and insiders expect the government to push back for a third time the amnesty order that protects the owners of more than 2,000 variants of “assault-style” weapons that were banned in 2020.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said in t

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