Liberals pitch public safety tent ....armed customs officers (thanx GW !!)

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Liberals pitch public safety tent

Agencies folded into new ministry But will it make Canada safer?

TONDA MACCHARLES
OTTAWA BUREAU

OTTAWA—It could mean armed customs officers one day at the border.

It may mean fewer immigration officers at airports and other points of entry.

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"Even the unions involved are cautiously receptive — mostly because they all swear it is not the same exercise the U.S. undertook with its giant headache.

The Department of Homeland Security brought 22 agencies and some 180,000 employees under one umbrella.

It sucked up the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and dismantled the Immigration and Naturalization Service, taking over immigration and customs enforcement matters. "



And why do we have to do all this ??

The name GeeDumbya comes to mind