Canada Border Services Agency: Immigration Union

Jean-Pierre Fortin Dept: These proposed budget cuts would have a direct and real impact on Canadians and our communities across the country, said Jean-Pierre Fortin, national president of the Customs and Immigration Union. He called the cuts a direct attack on Canada s national security, according to Globe and Mail. Dog-sniffer teams and intelligence officers are among the more than 1,300 jobs the union says it's been told will be eliminated at the Canada Border Services Agency and both countries promised the measures which also include harmonizing regulations to speed the trade of cross-border goods would enhance security. Yet the union that represents Canada s border officers is warning that deep staff cuts required to help the federal government balance the budget will severely impede efforts to catch terrorists, child pornographers and other criminals trying to slip into the country. More child pornography entering the country, more weapons, illegal drugs, will pass through our borders, not to mention terrorists and sexual predators and hardened criminals, he said at a news conference. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.