Border Security: Passengers

Canada Dept: Any threat to Canada s border security from knife-wielding assailants is surely infinitesimal: passengers are pre-screened for weapons before boarding flights, according to The Star. The risk isn t so much from aggression as exploitation not from passengers with concealed guns, but human smugglers who understand the facts on the ground better than most Canadians do and returning to Pearson Airport from vacation, I m always jolted by the sight of our border guards clad, incongruously, in armoured vests. But here s a bigger challenge for our system: soft-spoken foreigners who approach border agents not to inflict violence but to seek protection supposedly from persecution at home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.