Thread: Canadian border officers to be armed

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Prime Minister: Canadian border officers to be armed

02:10 PM PDT on Thursday, August 31, 2006

Associated Press

SURREY, British Columbia - Canadian border guards will be armed starting in September 2007 but it will take 10 years to fully implement the plan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

The federal government will have at least 150 officers with sidearms deployed by the end of March 2008, Harper announced Thursday at a border crossing south of Vancouver.

He also reiterated a $101 million promise from the federal budget to hire 400 additional officers. They will be used, among other things, to double up on Canada-U.S. border crossings that only have a single officer on duty.

Canada has about 5,000 border guards who have been demanding to be armed to help them deal with cross-border criminal activity.

Officers left their posts in British Columbia earlier this year when they were told that two murder suspects from California were headed their way. The men were apprehended by armed U.S. law enforcement officers.

Most likely they feel there is a rush comming from USA citizens in a few years to get out of here! Hate to think about it but it is getting harder for US citizens to move to any country. They all have immigration laws and enforce them! If you are wealthy they all want you!