Don't worry sweetie, I won't be trying to have any intelligent conversations with you in the future because I know you lack the prerequisites.

Do some simple math and tell me how much tax money less than 45,000 people generate a year. (Fun fact: The total population includes people who do not pay any taxes!)

Medicine expires, abortions are not regular daily procedures that would use the paid for and shipped medication regularly enough to justify the cost when a fraction of about half of any population would ever use the medicine, nurses still need to be paid for, and telecommunications are incredibly unreliable in rural areas to begin with.

I take it you’ve never lived in a rural or remote community. They tend to be disproportionately underfunded and impoverished (and in the Territories, many of the people living in those places are from Indigenous or mixed-race backgrounds, whice opens a whole other can of worms).

I take it you are a virtue signalling pseudo intellectual who doesn't know that total tax money is equal to the total tax paying population, so you need to pretend like you know anything about me so you can attack it.

Responding to me further will only waste your own time.

Move that goal post you keep shuffling around into the middle of the street and play net if you want to make the world a better place. Works better than senselessly arguing with someone online about the merits of "Documenting sales and keeping age restricted items behind the counter" to solve deeply ingrained social issues.

Herein lies the problem. There are facts in the news article that you seem to be ignoring.

Like the fact that if you take away machetes people from Manitoba can and will find a way to kill one another, because they have the number 2 homicide rate in the country, so wasting time on banning a single possible weapon is pointless when it obviously isn't the issue?

Manitoba had country's 2nd-highest homicide rate in 2021: Statistics Canada 'We need to do something different if we really want to provide real safety,' says U of Winnipeg professor

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-homicide-rates-2021-statistics-canada-1.6659655

I do not think machetes are the problem, but you do you.

You wanna know what Manitoba’s ‘legal’ restrictions on the purchase of long-bladed weapons are? You have to be 18 yrs old with photo ID (source). That’s it.

Yes, I already knew that and there is nothing wrong with that.

That is because they are outdoor sporting items that basically every single person should carry when going into the wilderness along with other survival equipment.

Tell me how that safeguards people from machete attacks that have been occuring in Winnipeg for over 30 years.

"The new provincial rules, which came into effect Dec. 31 and only apply to in-store sales, require businesses to sell the items only to adults with photo identification, and to keep records of their sales for two years."

Tell me how the new law safeguards people from machete attacks, and then explain why baseball bats, pocket knives, kitchen knives, golf clubs, scissors, etc, etc, etc aren't being restricted in the same way for "safety" reasons when all of those items are commonly used in attacks.

Performative legislation to restrict the sale of machetes and other long blades which are already restricted in Canada while not restricting other sporting good items more commonly used as weapons that aren't currently restricted.

What a colossal waste of time and resources.