A Right To Arms (2016): Self Defense & Gun Control History in Canada & The Commonwealth.

Because your right to bear arms is as Canadian as maple syrup.

Canadians are passionately attached to their rights. Free speech, freedom of association, free and fair elections … and the right to bear arms.

Lately that last one has been portrayed as somehow unCanadian, even sneered at as distinctly American. But actually it’s a fundamental part of our heritage.

When Canadians fought for self-government in the 1830s they were following a tradition dating back not just to Britain’s Glorious Revolution but to Magna Carta and even the end of Roman Britain.

The Canadians who fought for liberty in two world wars handled guns as familiar objects, tools deserving of respect but part of the natural inheritance of free-spirited, independent people.

The Right to Bear Arms tells the distinctly Canadian story of a people who have carried weapons in self-defence, including defence against tyranny, since time out of mind. It confronts the arguments against gun ownership today, on grounds of public safety or cultural inheritance, and shows that gun ownership is as Canadian as maple syrup or free speech.
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This film was produced by John Robson & Brigitte Pellerin following a successful Kickstarter campaign.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robson-pellerin/a-right-to-arms
John Robson is a documentary film-maker, National Post columnist and commentator-at-large for News Talk Radio 580 CFRA in Ottawa with a Ph.D in American history from the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent documentaries are The Environment: A True Story; A Right to Arms; True, Strong & Free; Magna Carta: Our Shared Legacy of Liberty; and The Great War Remembered.

Brigitte Pellerin is a writer, broadcaster, producer, and multimedia entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in Canada’s media environment. She has written about politics in French and English between 1998 and 2014 and is now writing fiction when she is not busy making documentaries or doing competitive karate.