Canadians must demand answers on no-fly lists

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Canadians must demand answers on no-fly lists

Jan. 18, 2006. 01:00 AM
HALIMA MAUTBUR

The issue of no-fly lists is finally registering on the national radar screen. It's an issue that should concern all Canadians, because this snare is catching far more than just the "usual suspects."

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Most startling about their cases is that neither were flying into the United States at the time — they were flying between Canadian cities.

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The incidents raise an alarming question: Why are Canadians being restricted by American policies in their own country?

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As Pat Martin pointed out after the U.S. list delayed him twice at Winnipeg airport: "I fly all the time. So it just makes you wonder who the chimpanzees are who designed this list," he told the Canadian Press.




Gee -

wunder who that "chimpanzee" remark was aimed at??

:dunce:

[hermetic]

1. Wow, that IS very

weird, disconcerting, annoying. WTF And Lapierre is making the list himself. Whose pocket is he in?This whole thing just doesn't sound good at all, for anyone.
And what next then? Listening to your phone conversations?

[Village Idiot]

2. I was going to post something along those lines yesterday.

About how USAsians now have the opportunity to feel like those of us in the rest of the world now. We have been being tapped via Echelon for years - and no one seems to complain to the Canadian government about it...

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Canadians have strict privacy laws -- it would seem Canadian

law is being violated.

And I'll bet that the Canadians don't have any clue how or why their name is listed on American now fly lists (used for internal Canadian flights.

If I were a Canadian I'd be raising holy hell with my elected leaders.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. If I were a Canadian I'd be raising holy hell with my elected leaders.

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We will

count on it . . .

Sorry guys - we do NOT want to be like the USA - blame ur (s)elected leaders for that . . . .