NewsMax reports on the Canadian senate security report which portrays the sad state of national defence in this country. Liberals are already calling the senate report “alarmist”, of course, despite appointing nearly every one of those unelected senators, and have clearly indicated through their actions over the past decade that they have no intention of defending Canada against anything …except conservative thought.
Paul Martin said just yesterday that his biggest priority is “boosting social programs”. Conversly, that’s not Osama bin Laden’s top priority.
TORONTO — Canada’s security net is full of holes, with most border crossings guarded by a lone staffer and airport security so lax that missing security badges and uniforms recently turned up for sale on eBay.
A new Senate security report calls for reform, a boost in defense spending and improved cooperation with the United States. Canadians have relied too long on luck to avoid a terrorist attack, it says, scolding: “Unfortunately, luck is notoriously untrustworthy.”
The 315-page report by the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defense, the first released under the year-old government of Prime Minister Paul Martin, said most of Canada’s 160 land and maritime border crossings have only one person at the posts.
“The potential damage to the Canadian economy and other consequences that would come with allowing a terrorist to infiltrate the U.S. through Canada are massive,” the report said.[…] The report, which some are calling alarmist and ineffectual, as it comes from the politically appointed upper house of parliament, noted that Canadian forces have been hit with budget cuts of about 30 percent between 1988 and 2000.
“Despite NATO’s recent expansions, Canada remains mired third-last among the 26 member countries, ahead of only Luxembourg and Iceland,” the report said. Iceland has no armed forces.
[…] More than 1,000 airport security uniforms and badges disappeared in the first nine months of the year, some turning up later on the eBay online auction site.
[…] The coast guard, meanwhile, is a “toothless” agency that is unarmed and reports to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the report said.
“Despite its name, the coast guard doesn’t play a serious role in guarding our coasts” […]
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