Posted on 06/22/2018 9:00:13 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The database, called Tuscan, is provided to every Canadian border guard and immigration officer, and empowers them to detain, interrogate, arrest and deny entry to anyone found on it.
Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by the Guardian through Canada’s access to information system reveal the fullest picture yet of a database that, although employed in Canada, is maintained exclusively by the US. It contains the personal information of as many as 680,000 people believed by US authorities to be linked with terrorism, and functions effectively as a second no-fly list that is cloaked in secrecy.
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Tuscan – which stands for Tipoff US/Canada – is mentioned almost nowhere in Canadian government documents except an obscure 2005 Citizenship and Immigration Canada report [pdf], where it is described as a way for both governments to “share data in order to deny entry to foreign terrorists who may attempt to travel to Canada and/or the United States”. There is a similarly passing reference [8.6MB pdf] in a commission of inquiry from 2006 into the detention of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was flown to Syria and tortured.
Despite this, Ottawa is forging ahead with an update to the system.
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.theguardian.com ...
Includes Peter Fonda?
And Bill Ayres.
Cloaked in secrecy I tell ya!
Not any more!
If the FBI had a hand in it, it must be irreversibly flawed.
That’s nothing.
If you have ever been convicted DUI in the United States, good luck getting into to Can-Uh-Duh.
They will turn you around at the border or port of entry...
The same goes if your ride home from work had a doobie in the car when he picked you up and managed to get stopped on the way home 35 years ago.
Works BOTH ways, FRiend...
Wait.
So, if you got nabbed for a doobie in Canada, the USA has access to that information and denies entry?
It wasn’t an obscure document, it was a Canadian document. Some might say that’s a difference without a distinction.
But anyway, none of this “revelation” is any kind of news in Canada, we heard about it when the program started. There is also legislation that allows U.S. border police (agents, whatever you want to call them) to cross into Canada and perform their duties on Canadian soil — I think the arrangement is reciprocal but have never heard of a case where a Canadian went into the U.S. on a mission unless it was to get donuts and coffee perhaps.
I seriously doubt the 680,000 figure unless it contains the names of everyone suspected of terrorism links going back to the Black Panthers, Weathermen, PLO/PFLP etc, JRA, IRA, the KGB Red Chinese, Stasi/Baader Meinhoff (all 20 of them), and a cast of thousands (Colobmia’s FARC and ELN - might make 15, 000; Viet Cong - another 15-25,000; Fatah; Iranian Republican Guards; etc.
In order to enter Canada with a DUI conviction on your records, you will either need to be deemed “rehabilitated” or granted a temporary resident permit. A person is deemed rehabilitated if he has no criminal convictions for a minimum of 5 years after the completion of the imposed sentence.
http://www.lundinlawpllc.com/practice-areas/washington-state-dui/entering-canada-with-a-dui/
The Canadians are some mean hombres!
They turn them back at the border, so we are stuck with them.
...Inludes Peter Fonda?
And Bill Ayres...
And Barack Obama?
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