“Baby Steps” To US Agents On Canadian Soil: RCMP

Carl Meyer

Embassymag.ca

May 21, 2012

The RCMP is planning to ease Canadians into the idea of United States
law enforcement agents pursuing suspects across the land border and
onto Canadian soil through “baby steps,” say two top Mounties.

“We recognized early that this approach would raise concerns about
sovereignty, of privacy, and civil liberties of Canadians,” RCMP Chief
Superintendent Joe Oliver, the Mounties’ director general for border
integrity, told the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence on
May 14.

“We said ‘Let’s take baby steps, let’s start with two agencies to
test the concept, let’s demonstrate to Canadians and Americans that such
an approach might work.”

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