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Marilyn White: Mexico

Mexico: Screening staff found the device but in an admitted foul-up didn't immediately call RCMP and allowed the 18-year-old passenger to board a plane to Mexico with his family for a holiday, according to Huffington Post. "If the authorities had missed that pipe bomb and you had gone in Mexico, through a screening device, you would not even get a trial," said provincial court Judge Marilyn White in a court hearing last month. A transcript of the hearing was released Thursday and EDMONTON - Skylar Murphy admitted in court that he put together a pipe bomb with a friend last year and planned to blow up a shed in rural Alberta for fun, but forgot the explosive in his bag until he was in line at the Edmonton airport. While recent news of the incident has sparked calls for changes to Canada's airport security system, the judge who handled the case had her own stern words for the young bomb-maker. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.