Metroland Media and Canadian Border Services Agency Report

Canadian Border Services Agency report: According to an internal Canadian Border Services Agency report that was obtained by Metroland Media and the Torstar News Service the mass strip search was carried out at the Thousand Islands Bridge border crossing in Lansdowne, Ont., on Dec. 31, 2011, according to Metro News. The report said the tour bus arrived at the crossing around 11 a.m. that day. When an initial immigration check revealed past criminality among some of the passengers, the students were asked to step off the bus. A search of the vehicle revealed six grams of marijuana and a small amount of what was believed to be cocaine, the report said and A busload of American college and university students was strip-searched by Canadian border guards three years ago in an incident that violated government policy and may have contravened the Charter of Rights of Freedoms, documents show. The bus, carrying 48 American students aged 18 to 25, was headed to Montreal to ring in the new year, followed by a couple of days of skiing at Mont Tremblant. The students were mostly males, but there were at least 10 females. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.