Customs and Immigration Union and Jean-Pierre Fortin

Jean-Pierre Fortin: 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 kidnapping suspect at a nearby hotel and bar, he said Monday. , according to CBC. The three who went to help the Mounties returned to their posts less than an hour later following the suspect arrest, he said. 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. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.