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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ga Bard who wrote (5250)	9/25/2001 11:40:35 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27666

It may be political side stepping, but lets remember one thing: It is the responsibility of US Customs and Immigration to police entry into the USA. Some of these people did, after all, go through US Customs, after coming from regions of the world known to harbour terrorists more frequently than Canada for gosh sake. For some reason this plain fact is never mentioned. I am in full agreement with you that our government needs to work hard to ensure that money is not being raised on Canadian soil to fund terrorists. In a like manner, the US has the same challenge as is clear from the news. Clearly the attack was made possible by the free and open society that we cherish and would fight to protect, making it difficult to come up with simple answers to the problem. As far as Canada, our immigration ministry has certainly shown how inept it can be, and how poor communication is between the various agencies responsible for security and the immigration department. In the US there seems to be a similar problem, at times - since the US has literally dozens and dozens of agencies involved in security, intelligence, immigration and policing, all with different communication, computer and control systems. It would seem that the new Homeland Defense initiative is recognition of that fact. I would hope that Canada takes similar and immediate steps to ensure that we - a smaller country with presumably fewer organizations - work together much more closely to ensure that information is in the right hands at the right time. PS: Joe Clark is on TV calling on Canada to examine what is going right elsewhere in the world, like El Al airlines etc. Simple, smart steps, and "why didn't we do this earlier"? Finally, it appears that our Canadian Security Intelligence Service has rather sweeping powers of investigation. Perhaps they have been misdirected. Sadly it seems that major crimes and attacks are what galvanize people to take action. I have to believe they will refocus their efforts in light of what has happened. Mike