Tom Says: “I think Americans have it right…”
For years now, American politicians have been complaining about terror threats to their country from places like our country, and now I think there may be something to it…
Just the other day, four men, (at least we’re told four men) walked off a ship in the Halifax harbour. They each walked past an unarmed official at the gate before disappearing into thin air — at least for a couple of hours…
We’re told these four men are now in jail — which prompted me to wonder aloud, “Where might they have been had it not been for an ever vigilant VIA Rail employee in Truro?”
His suspicions were aroused, he did the right thing in making some phone calls, and each man was quietly taken into custody. We’re not being told anything about who they are or what the purpose of their visit to Canada was. What the entire episode points out is that just about anyone who wants to get into this country illegally isn’t going to have much of a problem.
If these guys had been well organized and well financed terrorists, the most vigilant VIA agent in Truro would not have found them. They would have simply disappeared into the Canadian landscape somewhere — and all the reassurance from every cabinet minister in Ottawa wouldn’t make someone like me feel any safer.
While I don’t know this for sure, I somehow doubt four strange looking men wondering through a major port in the United States would just as easily go unnoticed.
I don’t care whether its Stockwell Day, Doris Day or Dennis Day who tries to reassure me about safety at our ports. Why can’t Stockwell Day just come out and tell Canadians that all ports in Canada are places of entry into this country and for the most part, they’re wide open and undefended?
I know it is impossible to stop every illegal alien from entering a country like ours with kilometres and kilometres of undefended coast line — But walking through the major port in Eastern Canada doesn’t make me feel any better about it.
No wonder Americans are worried.
I’m Tom Young.