Uncle Sam could soon be coming after you on Canadian soil.
According to an article in Embassy Magazine, the Harper government is moving forward on several initiatives that could give U.S. FBI and DEA agents the ability to pursue suspects across the land border and into Canada.
Seriously stupid. Every move that Harper makes seems to undermine Canada and Canadians. They are working hard to have an NDP majority government voted in next election.
this is nothing new.. if you remember a few years back a police pursuit ended in Niagara falls,ON with a US officer shooting and chasing a suspect over the border by car and made the arrest on our side.
This just isn't right! Criminals should be able to get away when being chased by police because they crossed an invisible line in the water or land. Outrageous.
Another cost saving measure by the Harper government, have the Americans do our policing for us. lol
Kidding!
Don't know any of the details , but allowing ...let's say, DEA boats and planes to enter our waters/airspace in pursuit of criminals is something I wouldn't have too big an issue with, provided it doesn't go beyond that and Canadians authorities are notified and brought in.
If Canada and the US can cooperate in SAR operations I see no reason we can't cooperate in law enforcement, but on a case by case basis. I'm not in favour of a carte blanche agreement.
Tear-assing around within Canada would require the US officer/agent to be in a liaison position. Which I think is the way things are done currently.
Canada is an INTERPOL member and this sort of thing has been agreed to under INTERPOL guidelines for decades. Likewise, the Protocol On Foreign Criminal Investigators In Canada already establishes the guidelines for cross-border investigation.
This is different than Interpol. Interpol agents do not make arrests on their own, only with co-operation with local law enforcement.
Interpol is about co-operation between international police agencies. This seems to be more about giving US agents the ability to enforce US laws on Canadian soil/waters.
I don't see how anyone can say that doesn't threaten our sovereignty.
It is a matter of reciprocity. If they can do it, then we can do it. As in any game the rules are fair if they apply equally.
Some of the posters here would not have suffered the development of the EU very well...
What is being proposed here is that the responsibility for the policing of the longest continuous land border in the world will be shared equally and both nations with jurisdiction when a suspected criminal crosses either a land or water border and being pursued by either nations police forces at the time.
A few decades ago there were those that ran away from the USA to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam war. I was in an incident where US law enforcement came hundreds of miles across the border and tried to arrest and apprehend Americans living in Canada for safe haven. More like kidnapping.
The US agents were overpowered and held at gunpoint until the RCMP showed up to take them away. They were sent back to the USA and were told never to come across the border to Canada for any reason ever.
With the changes being proposed, would Americans that live in Canada today, who never did anything wrong but had to flee, still be safe here?
bounty hunters aren't US law officials, but your previous point about US draft dodgers raises an excellent point. What if that scenario happened a year from now under the proposed changes? I'd hate for Canada to be a willing party to such a scene.
Were they draft dodgers or deserters, MCB doesn't really say. Different times back then anyway. Under the current volunteer army, any one running to Canada would be a deserter.
I believe some of the values of civilized society, and by extension government, are to prevent unnecessary suffering, maximize opportunity for creative and productive development, and minimize the constraints on individual freedom. As such, when it is clear there are systematic barriers or advantages accruing to identifiable groups within society, it is incumbent on us to consider modifications to the rules governing our interactions that may mitigate these disparities. This is can generally be described as "looking after" the interests of the disenfranchised, or "regulating" the behaviour of the powerful agents in society. So yes, that is part of what we have governments for.
Americans do not respect the sovereignty of other nations. They didn't respect or cooperate with the country that Bin Laden was hiding in. Unannounced, they sent in the special forces. Bin Laden and others in his residence could have been taken alive, maybe he was. Governments often lie to us.
Both American and Canadian citizens have been illegally kidnapped and taken back to the USA by bounty hunters and US Law enforcement. Those people are in Canada legally. The legal channels have no reason for Canada to send them to the USA. They should have been safe in Canada.
Quaid is not a draft dodger or army deserter. Neither was the Canadian that was kidnapped and taken across the border. The proposed new rules will make it worse. There are Americans living in Canada that are very afraid of their government who never want to go back.
Were you expecting a press release from Delta Team 6 prior to Bin Laden's assassination? I'm sure the Mosad sent one out prior to taking out Gerald Bull, same for the KGB and NKVD and their victims.
If what you say is true and the Americans do not honour our sovereignty, then those fearful Americans living in Canada would be long gone and back in the good 'ol US of A.
They were paranoid before they got here and probably always will be. It happens once in a while, not every day. Enough to keep the paranoid ex-pat nervous.
Anyone who is paranoid is going to be nervous of just about everything... seems to be particularly prevalent among conspiracy theorists.... it is part and parcel of being paranoid, ex-pat or not.
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