CEUDA has long called for the arming of Border Services Officers, as well as for the removal of students from the front-line, and for the doubling up of one person ports.  

Gun violence in Toronto and other Canadian cities is a Canadian problem that we must begin to tackle at our border where it is critically necessary to empower the people Canadians depend on to prevent gun smuggling and to stop armed and dangerous persons from entering Canada.   

Moran adds, “There is nothing intelligent about border enforcement when the Canada Border Services Agency has an armed and dangerous lookout system that has a mere 162 flags compared to more than 33,700 such flags in the Police database.  Worse, to learn Ottawa has ordered a cull of the 162 to make the number smaller to avoid work refusals by Border Service Officers reflects an arrogant and reckless attitude for the lives of those Officers and the safety of Canadians.” 

CEUDA has also called for an Armed Customs Border Patrol in Canada, especially since closure of RCMP Detachments along the border have left a vacuum of enforcement along the border between crossings and since police response times to calls for help by Customs are often dangerously slow, if a response even takes place, as was corroborated in the most recent report of the Auditor General of Canada. 

Moran closes, “CEUDA commissioned the Northgate Group, led by Michel Juneau-Katsuya, to undertake an analysis of whether the Customs duties have inherent risks that warrant the issuing of firearms.  CEUDA received Northgate’s nearly 200-page Report last week and will make it public without alterations at a Montreal News Conference at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 10, 2006.”