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Look out! Someone has let CBSA loose out onto the streets, how did they manage to escape from the Border?
Here is an article from metronews.ca
February 17, 2010 05:02:51
sean kolenko
Metro Vancouver
Two Canadian border agency officers have been spotted from their usual beat at an anti-Olympics rally in the Downtown Eastside, prompting civil libertarians to question their motives.
The group Anti-Olympics Resistance erected tents at an empty lot at East Hastings in between Abbott and Carrall streets — they’re calling it the Olympic tent city and say it’s meant to attract attention to the lack of affordable housing in Vancouver.
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) yesterday screened a video shot by one of their volunteers, showing the border agents outside the tent city.
Michael Vonn, policy director at the BCCLA, said he wants to know why the officers were there.
“We are unclear of the authority and mandate of ... agents,” Vonn said. “We want to clarify for the public what they are doing patrolling our downtown streets.”
Hannah Mahoney, a spokesperson for the Canadian Services Border Agency, said that inland enforcement is the result of the influx of people in town for the Olympics.
“The CBSA’s top priority is the safety and security of Canadians and visitors,” she said
Here is an article from metronews.ca
February 17, 2010 05:02:51
sean kolenko
Metro Vancouver
Two Canadian border agency officers have been spotted from their usual beat at an anti-Olympics rally in the Downtown Eastside, prompting civil libertarians to question their motives.
The group Anti-Olympics Resistance erected tents at an empty lot at East Hastings in between Abbott and Carrall streets — they’re calling it the Olympic tent city and say it’s meant to attract attention to the lack of affordable housing in Vancouver.
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) yesterday screened a video shot by one of their volunteers, showing the border agents outside the tent city.
Michael Vonn, policy director at the BCCLA, said he wants to know why the officers were there.
“We are unclear of the authority and mandate of ... agents,” Vonn said. “We want to clarify for the public what they are doing patrolling our downtown streets.”
Hannah Mahoney, a spokesperson for the Canadian Services Border Agency, said that inland enforcement is the result of the influx of people in town for the Olympics.
“The CBSA’s top priority is the safety and security of Canadians and visitors,” she said