Woefully Unprepared--MacKay & Kenny, JC's Khadr Fallout, Border Insecurity

Peter MacKay: Canada not ready to face a disaster Oct. 6, 05

Military cuts and lack of federal planning have left Canadians woefully unprepared for a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, says Conservative emergency preparedness critic Peter MacKay.

Senator Kenny -- Canada's disaster preparation: "A disaster waiting to happen" Sept. 8, 05

[. . . . ] "Canadians just assume somebody's going to take care of them," Kenny [chair of the Senate committee on national security and defence.] warned. "We have not invested in the resources needed to assure the safety of our own citizens."

[. . . . ] Kenny and his fellow senators have warned us over and over again that Canada is woefully unprepared for everything from a terrorist attack to a natural disaster. [. . . . ]

Ahmed Khadr - Chretien's favourite terrorist -- based on "The Khadr effect" -- On his journey from young Canadian immigrant to al-Qaeda martyr, Ahmed Said Khadr's reach touched nearly everyone under investigation in Canada for terrorism. COLIN FREEZE draws the connections -- Globe & Mail, October 3, 2005 Page A10 -- Posted by Al Gordon on 20:10:04 2005/10/03

This is the Islamist terrorist that our former Prime Minister, Jean Chetien, personally pleaded with Perez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, for his release. He was successful. At the same time, Bill Sampson was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia under a death sentence, and Chretien let him rot. The British secured his release.

Then Khadr's family members who hadn't been killed in battle or imprisoned in Guantanamo were rushed back to Canada by our government after having "lost" several passports in Pakistan and having an al-Qaeda track record sans pareil.

It doesn't take much to guess which Canadian voting block was giving Chretien his marching orders.

[. . . . ] n Aug. 2005: A Federal Court judge orders CSIS to stop interrogating Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay because the camp's human-rights violations fail to conform with Canadian values.

z Canadian officials at the inquiry into the detention of Maher Arar [. . . . ]

Detailed exploration of Khadr's connections -- worth reading.




It seems apropos to remind readers of this.

Border Insanity--Compliments of the Liberal Team

CEUDA is the employees' union while CBSA is the government Canadian Border Services Agency.

CEUDA to Government: protect our borders, tell Canadians truth AUG 17 News release, Customs Excise Union Douanes Accise (CEUDA) on the website, October 3, 2005

“Canada Customs have guidelines that make it optional whether or not someone considered violent, armed and dangerous, or as having terrorist ties, will be recorded as such in the Customs lookout database. More often than not, those guidelines are used in a way that prevents Customs Officers from knowing they’re dealing with someone dangerous, which unjustly places them at risk of grievous bodily harm and death.”

Canadians will be shocked to learn that, because Customs Officers are not armed, Customs policy tells them not to deal with dangerous people but to instead release them and permit their entry into Canada where local police can hopefully find them thereafter. Police are supposed to then find and arrest them . . . . This is nothing short of irresponsible negligence where front-line Customs Officers and Canadians are needlessly put at risk. “

[. . . . ] “Just so Canadians get this straight, Customs doesn’t tell Officers who’s armed and dangerous, a Customs policy tells Officers to let dangerous people into Canada, and to cap it all off there’s absolutely no record keeping of how many dangerous people released up the road are caught by police and brought back for processing.” [. . . . ]

From Talking Points:

CBSA [the government] has a long history of not being candid with its employees or Canadians when it comes to border security. In fact, not more than three months ago, the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence revealed that CBSA had altered … and that’s their word, not mine … a supposedly independent report that recommended an armed presence at the border. Although this recommendation was in the original report, without telling anyone CBSA deleted that part and pretended it had never been made. Thanks to Senator Kenny and his Committee, that is now a matter of public record.

Yesterday, members of the media reported on the incredible state of affairs that our members … front line officers screening the entry of persons into Canada … are not provided information about persons considered armed and dangerous, subject to domestic criminal arrest warrants, or war criminal deportee orders. As incredible as it is almost four years after 9/11, they also don’t have information about wanted terrorists.

Questions for Anne McLellan, Paul Martin and the Liberal team:

[Why] don’t you ask her [McLellan] why our officers don’t know who the criminals, terrorists and criminal deportees are. Or, why she insists we just let dangerous people into Canada? Or why CBSA doesn’t keep track of dangerous persons Customs Officers have had to let into Canada? All good questions that deserve HONEST answers!

Check the site for what happens in relation to this: "Is CBSA trying to stop Customs work refusals?" -- "the right of our members to refuse dangerous work."

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