Canada says it has border under control just ahead of Trump inauguration
By Canadian Press on January 15, 2025.
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says Ottawa has added 60 new drones at the Canada-U.S. border and will deploy two new helicopters this week as it moves to ratchet up security.
McGuinty trotted out the details of new measures as the federal government seeks to prove it’s serious about beefing up border security with just five days left before Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The Liberal government pledged $1.3 billion in border upgrades after president-elect Trump threatened steep tariffs unless Canada and Mexico clamp down on the flow of migrants and illegal drugs.
The border concerns however been mainly replaced by complaints about the trade deficit in Trump’s most recent threats to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports on his first day in office.
The RCMP plans to set up an aerial intelligence task force for round-the-clock surveillance of Canada’s border with helicopters, drones and surveillance towers.
McGuinty also says Canada will soon get its first-ever border preclearance operation at Cannon Corners, New York.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2025.
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press
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Sure, just like that! 2 new helicopters and 60 drones? The border is almost 9,000 kms and have you considered the train movements and sea containers? A report last year stated that rail traffic is basically not checked and ports see a tiny percentage of sea containers checked.
I will note that we would lose a tariff war and it would destroy our ecomony to a point not seen from several decades, perhaps going back to WW II.
The Liberals have allowed Canada to sink into an organized criminal haven by poor legislation, penal systems and defunding police, and lets not get started on how they have bankrupt our military. We are wide open for take over without the US protecting us! We are supposed to be a sovereign nation!
If you believe becoming the ’51st’ state would be fine, thing again, because you would see our population triple as fast as the Americans could build housing, and the Indigenous would lose many of their benefits and have to live as their counterparts in the US, with very little and our healthcare would decreased.
We need to appreciate our country and stand up for it!