JohnRich 4 #1 January 30, 2006 News: For the second time in recent months a festering labor dispute with Canada Customs workers snarled traffic on the International Bridge for as long as two hours Friday afternoon. According to reports, Canada Customs officers at the Sault, Ont. border crossing walked off the job about 11:30 a.m. Friday after officers learned an armed fugitive may be heading toward Thessalon, Ont. The customs officers quit work citing unsafe working conditions at the border crossing. The walkout was apparently an extension of the officers' bid to be trained in the use of firearms and to carry them on the job. Canada Customs officers work unarmed, unlike U.S. Customs officers on the opposite side of the border crossing. Currently, if customs officers spot a fugitive entering Canada their work rules indicate the outlaw should be allowed into the country and officers should contact local police.Source: The Evening News Additional story: Richmond Review Are Canadians so afraid of guns that they don't even trust their border guards to have them, and are willing to allow dangerous criminals to enter their country without resistance? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markd_nscr986 0 #2 January 30, 2006 Yeah....it's pretty crazy.........I think they should issue them HK MP5's myselfNone of our bad guys would have a chanceMarc SCR 6046 SCS 3004 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ViperPilot 0 #3 January 31, 2006 Not even guns for customs...Canada is the gosh darn smartester state in thar whole wide world! Idiots... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ExAFO 0 #4 January 31, 2006 ...And that's why Al Qaeda fucksticks love Canada.Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #5 January 31, 2006 Now, I know why the Canadian border guards are always polite and hardly ever hassle you. But coming back to the good ole USA we almost always get harassed in some form or another. After all these guys are packing heat. Last time through, after a fun day of jumping near Moose Jaw, the damn U.S. border guards confiscated all our sandwiches because they had beef in them. If I was a little hungrier I would have eaten all ten of them, in front of them, just to tick them off....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skycop 0 #6 January 31, 2006 I'd have to disagree with you Steve. I've crossed that point several times and the Canadian Customs guys and gals have always had an attitude. Just one example, my 13 and 14 year olds(at the time) didn't have photo ID and they made us go into the office. Where I was grilled for 15 min. then lectured about getting photo ID, I won't carry a birth certificate around because of the chance of it getting lost, then found by somebody else. The following year we used their school ID's, which are generic as hell and could be easily forged. This was all post 9-11. We are going to get passports for them now, even though they don't travel that much. On the American side they were always polite, and after a few questions we were on our way. But in their defense, if I was working that post and I wasn't armed, I'd have an attitude too...... "Just 'cause I'm simple, don't mean I'm stewpid!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #7 January 31, 2006 This one has some odd historical parts to it. To answer your question, I don't know of any Canadian who doesn't want the border guards to have guns. Except that is, for the old border guard Union. The border guards changed unions about 2 years ago. The old union was a union of government burocrats - they didn't want guns. In 2003 the union changed to a cop union, so now they want guns. I'm sure they'll eventually get their guns, nobody really is against it. The only reason I can see that they don't have them now is that the government (like all governments) moves slowly. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #8 January 31, 2006 QuoteThis one has some odd historical parts to it. To answer your question, I don't know of any Canadian who doesn't want the border guards to have guns. Yes, well, maybe you forgot to ask the liberal MPs who control such decisions. --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #9 January 31, 2006 Quote Yes, well, maybe you forgot to ask the liberal MPs who control such decisions. Didn't you get the memo? Now you're supposed to blame the Conservative MP's whenever Canada does something that offends you. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyrad 0 #10 January 31, 2006 QuoteThe walkout was apparently an extension of the officers' bid to be trained in the use of firearms and to carry them on the job. Canada Customs officers work unarmed, unlike U.S. Customs officers on the opposite side of the border crossing. Clearly the Canucs don't have much faith in their US counterparts.When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #11 January 31, 2006 QuoteU.S. border guards confiscated all our sandwiches because they had beef in them. It's hard to imagine that they're actually opening up lunch bags for inspection. Gosh. But I'll sleep well tonight knowing that I am safe from invading Canadian roast beef sandwiches. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #12 January 31, 2006 QuoteQuoteU.S. border guards confiscated all our sandwiches because they had beef in them. It's hard to imagine that they're actually opening up lunch bags for inspection. Gosh. But I'll sleep well tonight knowing that I am safe from invading Canadian roast beef sandwiches. It's OK for you, but it makes the cows mad.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #13 February 1, 2006 QuoteQuoteU.S. border guards confiscated all our sandwiches because they had beef in them. It's hard to imagine that they're actually opening up lunch bags for inspection. Gosh. But I'll sleep well tonight knowing that I am safe from invading Canadian roast beef sandwiches. My wife's cousin also got raked over the coals over a lunch his wife had packed for him when he crossed into the States a couple of months ago...threatened him with all sorts of heavy shit....it must get boring being a border guard in the middle of nowhere.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #14 February 1, 2006 QuoteMy wife's cousin also got raked over the coals over a lunch his wife had packed for him when he crossed into the States a couple of months ago...threatened him with all sorts of heavy shit....it must get boring being a border guard in the middle of nowhere. I don't understand this lunch sandwich ban. I can see banning an entire truckload of tainted beef, intended for mass consumption, as that would affect hundreds of unsuspecting people. But a lunch sandwich only affects the guy who made it, and no on else. He's not going to make himself a poison sandwich, and if he does, he deserves it. So I don't understand why border guards are so concerned about protecting an entire nation from one individual's lunch... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #15 February 1, 2006 John: you cant take in any fruit or meat accross the border to the US. Not even an orange with a Florida sticker on it. Makes sense doenst it? Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #16 February 1, 2006 QuoteJohn: you cant take in any fruit or meat accross the border to the US. Not even an orange with a Florida sticker on it. Makes sense doenst it? Um, no. If Florida can export oranges to Canada and you can buy them in a Canadian grocery store, then why wouldn't you be allowed to bring that orange back to the United States? It's goofy... This reminds me of when I was stationed in Japan in the Marines. Upon arrival, Japanese customs confiscated the Playboy magazine from my duffel bag, because no "pornography" is allowed to be brought into the country. However, after leaving the customs inspection checkpoint, the exact same issue of Playboy, written in Japanese, was on sale in airport shops just a few feet away. Go figure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
