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CBSA: Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart

CBSA Dept: The CBSA was responding to critics who say the show, which films agents arresting drug smugglers and phoney immigrants, is a taxpayer-funded attempt to promote the Conservatives law-and-order agenda, according to Vancouver Sun. Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, meanwhile, is planning to question the CBSA about how it handling privacy issues during filming of the series and OTTAWA The federal government is hoping to educate Canadians about the efforts of its border guard agents by taking part in a B.C.-based reality TV program, the Canada Border Services Agency said Friday. Opposition MPs and a B.C. criminologist also said Border Security: Canada Front Line violates the privacy and dignity of individuals being filmed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.