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(The caption is misleading inasmuch as the plan is to “ease us along” by baby steps so we don’t get hostile. Boiling frog.)
Plan to have US agents on Canadian soil ‘on hold:’ Government
Scroll down to the article. My commentary first.
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COMMENTARY
The integration and harmonization of the American and Canadian, police and military forces is marching forward.
The integration is well advanced.
The American military, in the form of Lockheed Martin Corporation, is also moving into our Universities. (ref PLANNING DOCUMENT for Lockheed Martin Corporation’s funding to the University of Saskatchewan.) At the April 2012 meeting of University Senate, the Acting Dean of the Engineering College, Ernie Barber, defended the collaboration. In the past we circulated news articles about Lockheed Martin’s forays into Dalhousie University and UNB.
The PLANNING DOCUMENT is not difficult text. The University will collaborate, to conduct Research to wage more effective war. Those are the “Learning opportunities” that will be offered to our young people. The “Collaboration Topics” will help to create an economy based on war. The people of the Province of Saskatchewan are being robbed of their University, their ethics and the future imagined by them.
We have the SMARTS to figure out creative non-violent resistance to injustice. It is stupidity and brawn that has no imagination beyond bombs, destruction, torture and surveillance.
FOR NEWCOMERS, INFO ON “SHIPRIDER”
2011-11-29 US cops now allowed to operate in Canada. Important article, Toronto Star.
Legislative Summary Bill C-60: Keeping Canadians Safe (Protecting Borders) Act.
“Shiprider” Agreement. Integrated Border Enforcement Teams (IBETs).
2011-11-29 MORE re “US cops now allowed to operate in Canada.”
Some cContext:
- The Troop Exchange Agreement in 2008
- the roll-out of armoured vehicles (which are for combat zones) in cities across Canada (and the U.S.)
- the deployment of unmanned drones along the U.S.-Canadian border
- Lockheed Martin moving into Saskatoon (a series of 3 articles from the Star Phoenix), and so on.
The article, 2011-11-29 US cops now allowed to operate in Canada. Important article, Toronto Star, shows that the American police are now more or less integrated with the Canadian police – – all part of the integration of North America. Loss of sovereignty, thanks to the quislings.
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TODAY’S ARTICLE
From “Embassy Magazine”, September 19, 2012
http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/usagents-09-19-2012
The Harper government’s plan to permit United States law enforcement agents to pursue suspects across the land border and onto Canadian soil is “on hold” while legal issues are resolved, the government says.
The program, part of the 2011 perimeter plan between Canada and the United States that is reshaping the two nations’ cross-border trade, security, and policing, was supposed to be tested through two pilot projects by the summer of 2012.
Plan to have US agents on Canadian soil ‘on hold:’ Government
By Carl Meyer, Published September 19, 2012
The Harper government’s plan to permit United States law enforcement agents to pursue suspects across the land border and onto Canadian soil is “on hold” while legal issues are resolved, the government says.
The program, part of the 2011 perimeter plan between Canada and the United States that is reshaping the two nations’ cross-border trade, security, and policing, was supposed to be tested through two pilot projects by the summer of 2012.
The land-based program could give the green light to US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration agents to cross the border and pursue suspects into Canada, the RCMP has told Embassy.
In May, two top Mounties told a Senate committee that the force was planning on easing Canadians into the idea of American agents in Canada through “baby steps.”
The government put amendments into its spring budget bill to make it permanently legal for US agents to be certified as police in Canadian waters. The maritime program, called Shiprider, was seen as the first step towards the same program over land, since the land program is referred to as the “next generation” of cross-border policing.
But Jean Paul Duval, a spokesperson for Public Safety Canada, wrote in an email to Embassy on Sept. 18 that “The Next Generation Pilot is on hold while the legal and governance framework for the program is finalized.”
Meanwhile, Shiprider is proceeding with the selection of officers and training, wrote Mr. Duval.
The RCMP has picked the officers it wants on the teams, and they are “in the process of being relocated to the areas of operation,” he added.
“Joint training sessions have been conducted over the course of the summer months to qualify selected officers for cross-designation.” that will be rolled out slower than anticipated. While the 2011 plan said two permanent Shiprider teams would be deployed by the summer, Mr. Duval wrote that the RCMP and the US Coast Guard won’t be in a position to deploy the teams until “late October 2012.”
Pre-clearance and wait times
On Sept. 13, the Harper government also highlighted two milestones in the perimeter plan:
killing the residency requirement for a pre-clearance program, and the installation of wait-time sensors near Niagara Falls, Ont.
That day, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews met with United States Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Montreal to talk perimeter, and a Canadian government press release from the meeting reviewed the two accomplishments.
Those occurred on July 10, when the Canada Border Services Agency said it was allowing Canadian and American citizens living abroad, and those who recently returned to their home countries, to apply for NEXUS, a pre-clearance program-and on July 17, when Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced new sensor technology at two international bridges at the Ontario-New York border.
The government says the sensors, which will measure traffic on the bridge approaches and broadcast the information online, will reduce border wait times “by up to one million hours per year.”
The government points to its website, www.borderactionplan.gc.ca, for a more extensive list of accomplishments so far.
Mr. Duval also wrote that there would be more announcements “over the coming months” as well as the first annual report, expected Dec. 31.
The press release also mentioned that there was “ongoing work” on information-sharing between Canada and the US for national security purposes.
That has driven the largest amount of public controversy for the two nations so far. Chantal Bernier, Canada’s assistant privacy commissioner, took issue with a June 28 bilateral pact on privacy principles, suggesting it could allow the personal details of Canadians to be sent to countries with bad human rights records. As well, critics raised concerns that the government’s decision in June to permanently legalize cross-border policing over water would trample Canadian privacy laws-although the government has insisted such laws will be respected.
Another summer perimeter change was that David Moloney, a Privy Council Office senior adviser and the official implementing the government-wide process, took on more responsibility on Aug. 1.
He assumed the job of Bob Hamilton, who became deputy environment minister after being assigned to the joint council charged with hammering out more efficient regulations for cross-border commerce.
Bersin’s third time
Ms. Napolitano was in Montreal to give a speech at an International Civil Aviation Organization conference on aviation security.
She came with her departmental colleague, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin, as well as John S. Pistole, the Transportation Security Administration’s administrator, according to the US government.
Ms. Napolitano also met with Transport Minister Denis Lebel.
For Mr. Bersin, it was his second appearance in Montreal in only a few months-he spoke at a June session at the Conference of Montreal, and outlined to Embassy how an executive steering committee would be meeting in Ottawa during the summer.
He was also in Ottawa in March to discuss the border security plan, urging a Rideau Club audience to sign up for pre-screening programs.