Let us consider this fantasy scenario: RCMP officers stopping American citizens on the Buffalo side of their border. Picture the horrified expression of those resilient New Yorkers as they are forced to slow down on their Interstate highway so as to be greeted by a smiling RCMP officer who is to inspect their property, ask questions about where they live, where they’ve come from, and the like — all part of a so called “pre-clearing” program.
We are now witnessing the Americanization of our law enforcement.
ARMED AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS WILL NOW OPERATE ON CANADIAN SOIL. —so long sovereignty
This article appears in Aug 8-14, 2013.
Good – maybe they can do something about the pack of Trayvons preying on people on Victoria Road.
Aim for centre of body mass (sorry, that’s spelled center, now) guys.
Seriously, you’re concerned about sovereignty?. The nation is 2 years away from going back to being ruled from Montreal, China owns us, and the largest growing number of immigrants owe their allegiance to a black rock in the middle of the arabian peninsula.
Sovereignty – don’t make me fucking laugh.
Well to put the shoe on the other foot our officers would be operating on American soil. So they would be witnessing the Canadianization of their law enforcement as we witness the Americanization of our own.
Currently they are in phase one of the pilot project. Protection officers are now only in Fort Erie, ON and Surrey, BC. The next generation policing project has not been finalized as our two countries cannot currently see eye to eye on jurisdiction and which countries legal system the officers would be held against.
The project now in operation focuses on the pre inspection of south bound shipments according to US customs practises.
The RCMP have publicly addressed this issue and reiterated why it reamains appropriate for host country laws and courts to continue holding sway. The breif concluded with “Canadaians place a high value on sovereignty and police accountability”.
The preliminary assesment of the situation concluded that it “would not be feasible or desirable to have two law enforcement officers working together being subjected to two different regimes for accountability and criminal liability”.
Senior mounties and several politicians have agreed to the development of options in this matter. Mainly to assure people like the OB that any model would be fully reciprocal.
There are many, many reasons including financial why this new model and new practises would be better for both sides of the border. It also dramatically decreases the wait time to cross the border. I will not write out those reasons as I feel if you truly care about this issue you can put a little more research into it as you are clearly speaking from unfounded rumours.
Military Police Officers in many nations enforce laws in other countries for members of both their own and other forces under agreements between the countries, Canadians in the US, Briton, Germany, etc and it goes both ways and never a problem.
AND ARMED CANADIAN POLICE OFFICERS WILL OPERATE ON AMERICAN SOIL. I guess the Americans will see the Canadianization of their law enforcement.
The only thing that surprises me is that it wasn’t done long ago.
The title of this bitch was entirely unnecessary.
The title of this bitch made me hungry.
The Big Three can all get fucked in their various orifices at once using rusty implements as far as I’m concerned.
Religions, or wireless providers, Brendon.
Cuz, y’know, it could go either way.
Any use of the term Baconator should come with a pre-warning to the Religion of Perpetually Aggrieved that the word bacon is included and may induce acid attacks interspersed with a beheading?
no ‘murrican is going to take a so-called Canadian cop seriously unless he is wearing red serge and has a wolf dog at his side. and opens doors for them.
That, Bazzer, is why my favorite superhero is Vlad Tepes
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo…
“the pack of Trayvons” … “Robocop a few permanently tanned scumbags”
Wow. I had no idea that so many of you were so damn racist. Just. Wow. I can’t even comment any further. I thought more highly of you than that, Ivan and am disappointed.
thread has bacon in the title so this is a legit link – look for salt flavoured meat poles
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_how_see
Well, Hoist, I’m sorry to hear that, but I’ve learned long ago that a charge of “racism” is so meaninglessly open-ended that it is impossible to repudiate and pointless to even try. My contempt for those who make the conscious decision to impose themselves on other lives and inflict pain and fear for shits and giggles does not allow much room for cultural sensitivity. So, it really doesn’t matter much to me whether the Mt. Hermon Cemetery swarmers are black scumbags or scumbags who happen to be black; the operative word is scumbag and skin colour is only relevant as a description that leads to a conviction. In fact, a cop could shoot any one of them through the face and I would probably sleep like a baby. It’s no doubt a character flaw of mine that I can’t feel any particular empathy. “Papa was a rolling stone”,”didn’t get to play enough midnight basketball”, or “young African-American-Nova Scotian males suffer from poor self-esteem and a feeling of disempowerment caused by systemic racism” – I just don’t care. Because, as any one who has ever been confronted by a group of young people out to commit mayhem can attest – they have more self-esteem than they warrant and more empowerment than their undeveloped consciences can process. And ethnicity doesn’t mean shit.
I had my eye socket crushed by a couple young black men and have a permanent scar/metal plate in my head. I still find racism unacceptable, perhaps due to my ability to forgive easily and also to see the bigger picture. If ethnicity doesn’t mean shit then why mention it? I’m not really very morally grounded with most things but racism and homophobia are two things that I have zero-tolerance for. Does my lack of tolerance mean that you should speak or behave differently? Certainly not. You’re free to do/say whatever you like. I was looking forward to meeting you on sunday. Now, not so much.
Fuck America and fuck their “world police force”. We have police and laws in this country, I’m not sure we need American police running around exercising American authority. If they can’t follow our laws and protocol, they aren’t welcome in my country.
i don’t even like it when americans talk about canada, shitd. that’s angry ivan talking, hoist, we all have different views. we are safe
Fair enough. Everyone draws their moral line in a different place. To amplify on what Paingirl said, I’d never put my friends in an embarrassing position by trying to either recruit them for a crusade or expecting their agreement. I’ve been finding myself exploring some dark places in the last few months, but it is a personal journey, and I’m not sure where it will lead.
I hope it doesn’t lead to a place of hate, Ivan. I think you are a better man than that. I think that some commenters (not speaking about you specifically, here) should bare in mind that people of different cultural/ethnic backgrounds are able to view these boards as easily as anyone else and I think it would be a real shame for them to read something like Phat’s comment, for example. But like you said, we all draw our moral lines in different places. No hard feelings here, man.
Also, I though Clint Eastwood was brilliant in Gran Turino 🙂
Thanks man.
Never met a Clint Eastwood line I didn’t want to plagiarize. >; )
^..^
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Da, Comrade Ivanski of Many Names, it was originally meant to refer to wireless carriers, but somehow it got lost in the intertubes and ended up here.
Oy Vey – they’re at it again……
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-23…
HoistThatRag on 08/08/2013 at 5:12 PM: Ditto
This whole thread is why NS is viewed by the rest of the country as the Alabama of the South.
Correction: Alabama of the *North*
I thought it’s supposed to be Mississippi.
Does that mean that Alabama is colloquially known as “the Nova Scotia of the South”?
All caught up in semantics?
that would be snared in semantics. or submerged in semantics.
No, because in addition to being a racist (loves me some Nascar) I’m also very anti-semantic.
I just thought that Louisiana would be a better choice, that’s all.
west virginia or in our case, east
“Rose: If you’re an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the North?
Ninth Doctor: Lots of planets have a North. “
LOL – still good for a larf.
LOL anti-semantic. Good to see you’re always expanding your horizons col.! 😛
I’ve devoted a significant portion of my nominally adult life toward proving the proposition that the pun is, indeed, the lowest form of humour.
*shakes head ruefully* What a legacy.
When people disagree with my policies I cry anti-Semanticism.
Leave bacon out of this.