Stressed-Out Border Guards Won’t Be Coming Back: Union

This is an interesting article, discussing, at the present time, not one, but two «stand - offs» between Indians (so - called «First Nations»), and White «kanadians.» The «other» confrontation is the confrontation between Brantford Mohawks and an the Ontario government (which, in fact, is siding with the Indians in order to avoid another «Oka»), at Caledonia, in south - western Ontario. There, too, Indians have closed roads, disrupted traffic and commerce, and generally, conducted themselves in an manner aggressive, belligerent, hostile and intimidating. And violent.

I am very familiar with this port of entry; anyone who lives on either side of the 49th parallel, in either south - western Québec/Northern New York State, or even as far east as Northern Vermont, would have taken «the bridge» in order to «short turn» thru either Northern New York, to Cornwall, Ontario, or the «Suroît» region of Southern Québec, just west and south of Montréal.

I remember, in fact, going over the bridge in the early 1970’s on a trip to and from Lake Placid, New York. And, pertinent to this recollection, I in fact believe that the Canadian «Post» was on the Cornwall side. At the base of the kanadian approach to the main span.

There is to this day, an traffic circle, which one negotiates as one approaches or leaves the bridge ramp, which I believe was the original site of the kanadian post. It was only moved onto Cornwallis Island (otherwise «the Reserve»), sometime during the late 1970’s or the early 1980’s.

Moving the post back to Cornwall would be awkward; but, with the Keynesian «pump priming» currently «in vogue» in both the United States and «kanada» the money would be available. And the project would be an convenient excuse per which to make use of it. At least on the kanadian side.

With regard to the Canadian Customs Officers «fear and stress» regarding their refusal to return to their jobs, I have little, if any sympathy. Whereas the degree of courtesy on the part of the USC&E (Customs and Excise) declined after 2001; the «kanadian» border bureaucrats were always far more crass, and impolite than their American «business rivals» 100 yards to the south.

Furthermore, not to take the Indians side, but I recall an incident in which an resident of «the res» was so exasperated (rightly or wrongly), by an «kanadian» customs agent that he assaulted him in the booth.

With further reference to the deployment of firearms to the border agents, the American agents carry them, the «native police force» (the so - called «Peace Keepers»), carry them, and the Indians themselves have everything from standard .223/.308 hunting rifles to AK - 47’s AR - 15’s and grenade launchers (I used to see their ads in American border newspapers in the 1990’s, advertising these items for sale).

The real problem currently, and one that is suppressed by the media, concerns the fact that the Cornwall border crossing is an important port of entry, both back and forth, for road way commerce. With the bridges closed, trucks will have to detour further east, and then south thru Port Covington. South West of Montréal. Or, even further east, to the border crossing at Lacolle, Québec, due south of Montréal.

Also, the «kanadian» government, in an classic example of an Third World style «shake down» continued to charge a toll for the «privilege» of using the bridges, years after the Americans, evenn in highly taxed, highly regulated New York State, had abandoned this form of mean - spirited government extortion. The bridge has been up for at least 50 years; it has certainly long since been paid for.

The aggressive belligerence of the Indians is deliberate and calculated; they know that the kanadian government, obsessed with the importance of presenting «kanada» as an happy, diverse, multicultural nation, are, literally, terrified by the prospect of «another Oka.» I don’t know how the matter will be resolved. But I am confident that the government will agree to whatever the Indians demand.

Just a question, are these ‘border guards’ White or other? Anyone!

Simple solution to this. Instead of moving the line forward to U.S soil, move it back declaring the reservation a no mans land. They’ll soon be begging for law enforcement.