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Canadian Border Service and KEN Jean-Pierre Fortin

KEN Jean-Pierre Fortin: Man. - The union representing Canada border guards says three of its Manitoba members have been suspended without pay after leaving their posts at the request of the to help arrest a suspect. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Two guards kept watch over several exits while a third guard went into the bar, said Fortin, who added the border remained staffed by three other guards on the night shift. Canadian Border Service workers gather last Wednesday showing support for a fellow officer involved in a union dispute outside a government building on Main Street. KEN Jean-Pierre Fortin, president of the Customs and Immigration Union, says the guards were asked a few months ago to provide backup for the less than a kilometre away from the Canada-U.S. border in Emerson. The guards left their posts to help the Mounties, who were staking out a hotel and bar where they had tracked a suspect believed to be involved in the kidnapping of a child. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.