Originally Posted by
exbayern
I am concerned about the important message being lost amongst the noise. I know that I used to overlook this forum and would most likely do so now if I hadn't been here for quite some time in the past. I have seen the response people have had and I myself had similar responses in past.
I know that a few people here have not had the best CATSA experiences, but many of us generally have unremarkable ones. I too find the YYC CATSA screeners I encountered over the past year a little different than those at other major Canadian airports, and don't think that the needs to be as much concern generally as when one flies from a US airport.
I respect your opinion greatly but my experiences have been very different from yours and from many others who fly in Canada. It is interesting that, when I travel to the U.S., I never have any hassles with the TSA nor have I ever had a secondary screening. And, I am talking about a wide variety of airports here. But Canada is a different story.
I think that one important difference between people in the two countries is that Canadians are much more hesitant to make waves and report incidents to CATSA or even the press. However, that is all changing and especially since those two incidents in January at YYC. More and more people are becoming disgusted with the way they are treated at airports and I could not be happier about this turn of events.
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Personally, I don't think an important message has been missed in this thread. I think people need to know that screening in Canada is not a pushover and that our rights at the airport are being taken away here, too. In my mind, THAT is the important message.