For interest's sake: Garda is a publically traded company on the TSX.

Here is a 3 year chart of their stock, it's quite a bumpy ride:

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=GW....d=p81789520149


There are a few good screeners at YYZ T1 domestic: Cecil who I see on the lower level, and a few guys upstairs who are polite, respectful. I always return the favour and thank them. Let's face it, despite the recent crackdown on our rights and sanity, we do need screenings for every passenger. There are random nutbars everywhere, always have been.

Of course I am first to grumble: on this trip for the first time in my 7.5 years of regular air travel my hands were swabbed. It only took a second as I waited in line.

But really, let's say someone just mixed up the perfect concoction of hard-to-detect stuff in their garage, one morning. Would they really think: Oh geez I'd better not put this in my carry on because I might get the once-in-five-years hand swab!!

A better idea: at CN Tower you must walk though a machine that puffs air on you and then reads it. A great idea in place for years. Sadly the nude body scanners were gathering dust on showroom floors and had to be moved, pronto. One guy, yep one guy who had inside help to travel without a passport affected 7 billion people, overnight.
Coincidence? Or a wet dream for state crackdowns and the incidious link between government (our money) funding of private companies (kickbacks, envelopes of cash - looking in your direction, Honourable Mr. Mulroney)