RCMP looks to redeploy its workforce to Canada-U.S. border following Trump’s tariff threat
The eastern region for the RCMP includes Quebec and the four Atlantic provinces. Only Quebec and New Brunswick border the U.S. in this region
The RCMP says it’s looking to redeploy up to one-quarter of its eastern region workforce to areas considered an operational priority, including to the Canada-U.S. border.
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump pledged this week to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports until more is done to stem illegal border crossings and drug trafficking.
The threat spurred calls from premiers and opposition leaders for the federal Liberal government to do more to secure Canada’s border.
Among the voices was Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who says she is considering creating a provincial border patrol.
The eastern region for the RCMP includes Quebec and the four Atlantic provinces. Only Quebec and New Brunswick border the U.S. in this region.
Cpl. Martina Pillarova, an RCMP spokesperson, said the temporary redeployment is aimed not only at supporting border integrity, but other federal policing priorities as well.
Pillarova added that this sort of move is not out of the ordinary. “Please note that so far, the situation has remained stable at the border and our operations are proceeding normally.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection credits its own enhanced enforcement with a substantial drop in the number of encounters with migrants at the Canadian border.
But there has also been a significant drop in migration since changes were made to the Safe Third Country Agreement last year to close a loophole that allowed asylum claims outside regular ports of entry.
“The RCMP says it’s looking to redeploy up to one-quarter of its eastern region workforce to areas considered an operational priority, including to the Canada-U.S. border.”
Once they get one foot on Canadian soil we’re stuck with them. Our laws and Charter guarantee it. Facilitation not enforcement. That doesn’t leave much time to get ahold of all of the bell boy and porter uniforms they’re going to need.
“I understand Trump is already talking about building — basically concentration camps and huge detention centres,” Richard reports. “And people are just going to run. They’re just going to run,” he predicts.
concentration camp (noun) · concentration camps (plural noun)
a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.Really, concentration camps? What an inflammatory, downright stupid comparison. Political anti-Trump bullshit. There’s not enough rioting and violence in our streets now?
What would this career civil servant expert suggest Canada do when we are swamped and the odds are that we will be? Anything less that a Holiday Inn Express to house these foreigners when they invade Canada would be a “concentration camp”? I suggest this ‘expert’ (subjective) google Dachau, Auschwitz before he makes a fool of himself again.
Mark these words. When it happens 10,000 will be chump change.
Typically the progressive liberals are already trying to deflect from responsibility (providing cover) for their incompetence and decades of politically motivated dereliction of duty by ramping up the blame it all on Trump rhetoric. Some of us genuine experts who actually worked years in immigration/refugee criminal enforcement have been sounding a warning about this exact situation since practically the day Biden threw open the southern border. Nobody would listen. I notice this ‘expert’ makes no mention of that fact.
You need to deal with these people within months, Richard suggests, and that means Ottawa needs to hire far more immigration judges to process asylum claims. The system is overloaded now, Richard says; God help us if the numbers grow.
Politics revealed! A career of Canada not first. This progressive left philosophy mirrors that of the Biden administration’s. Not more vigorous border enforcement, just more money to hire more people to facilitate the processing of more and more fake refugees because the vastly overwhelming majority are economic.
Finally, this nonsense. “God help us” if foreign aliens attempting to enter our country illegally are injured or perish. Why would Canada require God’s help? There is ZERO onus on Canada to ensure that anyone breaking our laws can do so in personal safety?
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The reason I say this won’t work is because these new postings could turn out to be long term, inconveniencing families and causing officers to leave the RCMP. I know I would be considering it in their shoes. These officers have options. A lot of them have moved to the OPP (probably QPP also) where they are far more welcome and get paid more!!!
I’m waiting for a great big “F**K You” to Justin Trudeau and his incompetent hangers on.
I have been known to be wrong.