Jean-Pierre Fortin: Canada Border Services Agency

Immigration Union Dept: 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, Jean-Pierre Fortin, national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, said in Ottawa on Thursday, according to The Star. Fortin said the union was told 325 border service officers would also be eliminated and that the cuts also include 100 positions in the intelligence branch, representing about half its workforce, along with 19 out of 70 sniffer dog units. The union said 1,151 members received notices their jobs are affected, but the number of positions considered surplus is 1,026 and oTTAWA The union representing Canada Border Services Agency employees has warned that major job cuts will have an apocalyptic impact on national security but the Conservative government claims that everything is going to be just fine. The doomsday scenario presented by the union leader stemmed from his learning the border services agency would cut 1,026 positions nationwide over the next three years, including 124 in the Greater Toronto Area, as part of $143 million in cuts to the agency announced in the federal budget . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.