Posted on 09/06/2009 10:05:12 PM PDT by george76
In the year ending March 31, there were 127 so-called use-of-force incidents at border crossings. That's almost three times the number for each of the previous two years...
Canadian border guards have been carrying guns since late July 2007.
The federal government announced plans to arm members of the Canada Border Services Agency in 2006, and in that year's budget Ottawa allocated $101 million over two years to pay for weapons training.
At the time, it was estimated that the process to arm Canada's 4,800 border guards was expected to take 10 years and cost about $1 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
4,800 guards to be armed?
It would take over $200,000 PER GUARD to amount to one billion dollars?
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If that is compared to the guards’ pay over that period, it’s a pittance.
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