Reply #2: Lots of political inteference lately... [View All]

[MrPrax]

I would love to know who set this 'protest' off and whether we will get a real investigation...union or no union...heads should roll...

B.C. border guards to return after safety threat

The backlog at four B.C. border crossings has been cleared after about 60 border officers walked off the job on Sunday.

Motorists were left with massive lineups yesterday when the unarmed guards left their posts south of Vancouver and in the Fraser Valley in response to a security scare.

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The situation on Sunday started in the afternoon when U.S. Homeland Security officials told the RCMP that a suspected killer from California, who should be considered armed and dangerous, might try to cross the Canadian border.

They thought he was heading northward towards Anacortes, Wa. on a motorcycle -- located about 60 kilometres due south of the border, but sharing a ferry route with Sidney, B.C. -- where a motorcycle rally was taking place. Many Canadians attended the Oyster Run, as it's called.

The RCMP informed the border guards, who walked off first at Huntington at 2:15 p.m., then the other three crossings.

CTV

So why didn't the RCMP provide their usual backup as is procedure? It was last year? Moreover, simply giving them guns wouldn't change this procedure anyway. The RCMP would still be informed and dispatched. :shrug:

This may seem mean, but this wasn't a labour action, but a political action in my opinion. Moreover, if we are to accept the big bad threat of terrorism like our current government seems think is an overrriding concern (for everything), then this should weigh in on any punishment handed out to these 'workers'.

Dollars to donuts, the Tories don't see the abandoning of our border during a 'war' as being all that important and will defend it as a 'labour action' (hehe) instead of denouncing it as more interference of a largely 'liberal bias' bureacracy like they have been doing with everyone from the environment ministry all the way to the press gallery.

This was pretty outrageous if you think about it -- the information was originally present by Homeland Security...if simply some report can shut down this country's border economically for 6 hours, then there is a major major problem of this 'fear' tactic being deployed at the American leisure, while we have a traitor government gaming it for domestic political purposes...

Who runs our borders? Us or them?