Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
It's not just Canada. The US has insisted on more intensive screening for everyone flying into the US, not just for people flying from Canada. The US then "relaxed" this slightly by insisting on extra screening for all people who are citizens/residents of 14 countries, and random extra screening for everyone else.
These measures hit Canada especially hard because (a) Canadian airports have a high proportion of flights to the US, hence a high proportion of passengers that must be screened in depth and (b) apparently Canadian policy prohibits discriminating against the 14 countries so CATSA are giving the super-dooper extra screening to everyone.
I haven't seen anything suggesting that Canada is a particular threat or that the proximity to Detroit is a factor.
Given the cause of the problems as described above, I wouldn't count on it.
Yes, but flying domestically in the US is supposedly a piece of cake right now when you would think security would be tightened following Xmas Day. After all, the 9/11 terrorists were all on domestic flights.
I'm going to have to research further about the policy in Canada prohibiting profiling. Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms nicked 'The Reasonable Limits Clause' would apply in cases like this.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
The intent is on one hand to guarantee all rights, but to have the authority to limit them... as in national security and profiling.
As I stated earlier, it was my husband's opinion. He works for Dept of Homeland Security. What is important is the quick reaction and that in his experience, he surmised there is a reason for it. Not everything is publicized. It's not that Canada is a threat, because we aren't. What he thought is there were possibly links between Christmas Day Terrorist and someone in Canada, not the country itself.
Think about it, though. They did have intelligence and he thinks that some of it pointed to having an accomplice or link in Canada. If the public is not well aware, DHS certainly is that Detroit is viewed as an easy access point to Canada and vice versa.