Our understaffed and unarmed border guards hightailed it out of their little border pill boxes when warned armed American crazies were going to try and shoot it out through the border into Canada.
Now under the Canada Labour Act these unionized workers, and heck any worker, has the right to say Whoa that's a Health and Safety violation, I am in immanent danger. Which is what our border guys and gals did. Smart move too.
The yanks were armed with machine guns. Our border guards do not have flack vests or kevlar bullet proof armour. And they only got issued Pepper spray last year. Yep pepper spray against machine gun toting crazy Yanks.
Nope I am outta here.
U.S. murder suspects arrested in shootout at B.C. border
CBC News has learned that when unarmed Canadian border guards found out the murder suspects were coming their way, they left their posts at two crossings along the B.C. border: the Peace Arch crossing at Douglas, which was closed for a while, and the Pacific Highway Truck Crossing, to which traffic from Douglas was diverted.
Supervisors were left at each crossing to protect the Canadian side.
A spokeswoman with Canada Border Services says the guards have the legal right to refuse to work if they believe they are in imminent danger.
This became an issue during the election. As I wrote;
The NDP would increase border guards and arm them something their union has been asking for and the Liberals denied them.
The Liberals for over a year have claimed there was no problem at the border, despite the Border Guards union saying the contrary. The most the Liberals did was to promise more RCMP patrols. Which does little to help the border guards many of whom patrol on their own, with no back up.
Now perhaps with a new government in Ottawa one which admited that illegal guns flooding into Canada was the problem, contrary to what gun nutz in the U.S. say, the border guards will finally be listened to.
Yep it appears that the Conservatives will.
Conservatives to arm Canada's border guards
The newly-elected Conservatives say they will make good as soon as possible on their leader's pledge to arm Canadian border guards, following a shootout on the Canada-U.S. border on Tuesday night.
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