Senate Says Arm Canadian Customs Officers, Harmonize With U.S. Duty-Free Exempti

Arming our Border Guards would be a good idea. Customs Officers are screened very thouroughly and its not easy to get hired. You need very good visual memory and the testing is pretty extreme from what I understand. We definately need more of them. I think the two billion dollars wasted on the Gun Registry could have been better spent on well equipped and many more Customs Officers on the Border, which would in turn prevent ILLEGAL firearms like assault rifles and sub-machine guns, that come over the border and remain in criminal hands. Which are the ones that are actually an issue of public safety, in my opinion.

The United States of America is committed to getting other countries to give U.S. authorities access to their private records and data banks, dictate how they run their countries, push for law and rights reforms that they would not consider in their own country and the US reciprocates in limited ways when it is convenient to them. This is due to their believe that the end justifies the means. The United States of America first, fore most and always number one. No matter what damage it couses as along it does not happen to them.

The question remains when all has been said and done, has Canada lost its sovereignty over its foreign and domestic affairs as to international trade due to its close trading relationship with the United States? That Canada can not exercise its democratic rights and move freely without fear because it has not gotten approval from and risking offending our neighbor / friend / family to the south of us. Have Canadian producers and suppliers become so tied to the high profits margins in the US that it is no longer profitable to look after Canada’s own domestic market? Do Canadians really need to give up their privacy without legal protection and recourse in US courts? Are we to integrate all of Canada's resources, military as well as political and economically with the United States to the point that we will lose control over our national resources and economical systems because we have a smaller population then the US as well as a means to support US security? Will Canada in the end become to be a US protectorate and non citizens of North America with no voting rights or influence over our own destiny except for our local municipalities?

The matter of Canada/US relations the Canadian people have been the losers and their wishes for their country have rarely been followed by those entrusted to express those wishes. It seems to suggest, too, that US leaders have always had, and expressed, a clear interest in subordinating Canadian wealth and freedom to the needs and wants of the USA.


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It's not the needs and wants of the USA, so much as the Elite of the USA. The reason we are in this situation is because the corporate structure on both sides of the border is dominant over the Political Structure. Just look at the Arms industry for a perfect example. The Canadian Pension Plan invested in the Carlyle Group, and our current Ambassador the the US is a former board memeber. The next generation of Joint Strike Fighters that is being developed for NATO forces is being built in the US and Canada with colaboration for many other NATO countries. The Canadian Millitary is buying Stryker Armoured Vehicles, which come in 8 flavors from Anti-tank to APC. They too are produced on both sides of the Border. This alone should tell us that as far as the Elites are concered, we are one country. Its just lines on a map to them.

Oh, for Godsake.

Arm your border! What is the big deal? Stop moralizing about your latest Elite conspiracy theory, and just do it!

I really, really don't want any illegal Canadians coming into the USA. Hell, I don't want ANY Canadians in my country. I hope Canadians will take the same attitude, and enforce it.

Say NO to Deep Integration! Keep the Bastards OUT! Shut Down ALL Trade NOW!

moralizing what?
Its a fact. Just look at your border to the south. If there was any Political Will in your country to close it, it would be closed. You must love mexicans willing to work for less than minimum wage in your country. Most of the Canadians that move to the USA are highly educated and a benefit to your economy. Why don't you go to an American Patriotic website and do something contstructive, instead of bitching at us because you dont like our attitudes. People getting into your country illegally is the responisbility of your government, not ours. Why don't you go campaign for some harsher border controls from your own goverment if your so concerned?

We can all blame the Canadian, American, and Mexican governments if deep integration happens. People of Canada, USA, and Mexico should rebel against deep integration. This may help stop it. If you look in Europe with the European Union, the people of France and Netherlands already showed their negative opinion on the constitution to give the European Union more power with a strong NO to the vote of the new European Union constitution.

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I'm not against arming the border guards if they truly need that kind of protection but I wonder what has changed over the years. I remember the debate about English Bobbies and their night-sticks/no gun policy. On the one hand I keep hearing that crime is dropping per capita, yet we seem to be a more violent society according to the media. On that note, I once asked my father-in-law(RCMP since 1952) what crime was like in the nineteen fifties. I told him I was wary of giving my children the kind of freedom I enjoyed as a child and he said that its was just the same back then except people were too polite to mention that it occurred. My point is that if the number of violent aggressions against border guards per the number of border guards has increased then I think its fully justified. I wonder if they experience more violent aggression than 7-11 clerks per capita? I don't like to see too much visable gun-carrying in society if its not warranted as it has the same effect on people as mirrored sunglasses.
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Well, that response makes no sense. The post is about arming Canadinan customs, not the continuing influx of desperate Mexicans into America.

I'm all for arming the Canadian Border on the Canuckle side! Please, just shut down the border, too! Let's just close all border crossings! No traffic, for at least a year!

Preserve your unique Canadian National Identiy at all costs!

Say NO to DEEP INTEGRATION.

it only makes no sense if you are to blind to take some good advice.

When a pissant, undefended "country" like Canada presumes to give "advice" to it's neighbor, who is 10 times its size in population, and 10,000 times its influence in the world, then, well, then... it makes no sense.

Just shut up, beaverboy. You embarrass yourself and your swamp-country.

"Good advice" from your version of Canada by definition means ignoring ongoing self-destruction, ignoring internal corruption, obliterating citizen inputs, and completely failing to meet any promised global obligations.

Ya. Go ahead. Advise away. Canada will continue to enjoy its rightful place in world opinion. That just happens to be someplace in the bottom of the dumpster, in the back alley, behind the Chinese fast food shop.

Interesting post Dio. Do you have any idea how Goodale's concentration on boosting productivity would fit into this?
Would it be #2:A redirection of public expenditure priorities toward fields offering both high economic returns
Or door #3:Tax reform (to lower marginal rates and broaden the tax base).

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Another interesting link.
We too have a little protectorate much like Guernsey. It's called the Isle of Lasqueti. They too have their own interest free currency, though, instead of issuing the currency, they grow it, so there is no central control of the money supply. The currency is retired naturally by trading, smoking, or confiscation. The people of the island seem happy and content. It even seems to be a naturally developed tax haven. The similarities are really quite remarkable. Perhaps Goodale would benefit in a visit to this island.