“rail we don’t do at all…”

39 Replies to ““rail we don’t do at all…””

1. Good.

   1. UnReal loves to see people die!

      Remember that the next time UnReal posts something incredibly stupid…

      (as he so often does.)

      1. Sometimes, a free people do stupid lethal things. A small price to pay for freedom.

         1. I repeat…

         2. You’d rather have people DIE so that you can enjoy your freedom to consume illicit drugs, UnReal? Is that how your value system works?

            1. I prefer the Singapore Solution. It is relatively very inexpensive and very effective.

            2. UnMe has a convenience system, not a value system.

         3. As intentionally large a misreading of the problem as is possible, that’s UnMe.

         4. You propose neither.

   2. Why? Please illuminate.

      Ohhhh yeahhh … you’re an Afghan poppy grower. It how you fund your terrorism. Got it. You don’t much like drug laws. Not at all surprising

2. L – Technical solutions take budget, training and assigning current staff to stop doing what they’ve been
   hired to do and do something else or hire more public servants. On the other hand El Salvador’s President
   is offering to house prisoners there for a fraction of the $100,000 plus cost/year in Canada.

   Given that the police already have criminal intelligence profiles of the criminals involved. Except, the chances
   of the Supremes allowing a 75-90% reduction in per prisoner cost and a really low recividism rate from the
   deservedly long sentences… well are from .01 to zero. Making Vancouver and the GTA et al, safe again would
   be an indictment of decades of changing the Justice System into a Justice Industry. The Administrative
   state will not be mocked!

   Hint it’s not inanimate objects that commit crime. It’s criminals. Fewer Gangstas, means Fewer Gangsta Guns
   to protect the Drugs and Drug turf from competitors.

   1. Drugs also don’t commit crimes. Prohibitions mean black markets that are fought over violently.

      In any event, whatever ‘savings’ to be had from shipping citizens off to El Salvador are outweighed by the gross violation of due process and other civil rights such a venture entails.

      1. See my comment above.

      2. Interesting how UnMe tries to smuggle in the notion that illegal aliens are “citizens” with due process and wants the theft to continue by granting them “other civil rights” they piss-on by their very illegal presence.

         1. I really hate to say it but according to our constitution, he’s right. One of the first cases that the Supreme Court ruled on after PET cursed us with it and his charter was that anyone who sets a foot on Canadian soil is entitled to all of the benefits of Canadian citizenship.

            1. He was referring to the USA. Bananada doesn’t have a constitution as covid demonstrated.

3. I’ve crossed the border thousands of times commercially. Both sides need to inspect more. I suspect they both use facial/pattern recognition and AI to pull in people and have success with it. Inspections seem more targeted than they were in the past.

   But I haven’t been through an xray scanner going into Canada in probably 15 years. Pembina ND CBP has a building specifically for their mobile scanner unit. I might go in there once every 3 years. To be fair I’m very low risk, I have a perfect record and a long history of crossing. I also pull a flatbed trailer. Huge difference compared to dry van.

   Both sides use similar scanner units and I’ve seen the images, they’re very good. They found a small knife in a load of meat.

   1. Going into the US, you have scanners, including both road and rail. Coming to Canada, there isn’t much of anything other than the agent.

4. Liberal racist Party doesn’t want to find anything, that would upset their allies in the Communist Party of China.

5. I had a conversation with a Vancouver Harbour Cop at a Block Watch presentation 35 years ago. Same story: no staff, no tools. We’ve come a long way, haven’t we?

   Containers of drugs come in from overseas, and are offered for sale. Druggies steal stuff in order to pay. The stolen goods go into containers, and are shipped overseas. Voila!

   Substitute a myriad of other commodities being shipped in and out of the country, and you have an industry. An industry has political power, and won’t be stopped.

6. Approximately 7 million shipping containers arrive in Canada every year from China, most of them come to Vancouver.
   How can anyone expect to inspect more than a tiny fraction of the containers without causing extreme delays and a monstrous backup in the port?
   One percent inspection is 70,000 containers per year, almost 200 per day, with 8500 inspectors spread out over 1200 ports of entry in Canada and other countries.
   Each inspector would have to check about 25 containers per day, 365 days per year. We don’t have the manpower, nor can we afford to hire them.
   I can’t see any realistic way of stopping fentanyl precursor traffic into Canada. And that’s only containers from China,I’m sure the smugglers will be able to adapt and ship via other countries.
   The reality is depressing, despite what politicians and government agencies claim.
   I wonder if some CBSA inspectors are susceptible to threats or bribery.
   I can’t even guess at what the solution(s) might be, I’ll leave it up to our security experts to deal with and hope for the best while expecting the worst.

   1. Charge a $200 per container inspection fee. And make that coming and going. What you would do with a container that contains hundreds of boxes, each of which contains a dozen boxes? Charge extra? The unfortunate thing is US ports likely have just as much smuggled drugs as Canada and Mexico. Trump is just a whiny little pussy who wants to blame everyone except the US.

   2. We can’t afford to hire them? How about we stop paying other nations’ citizens via foreign aid?

      We have every excuse not to make anything better in Bananada.

   3. CBSA inspectors susceptible to threats or briberty, yeah and the CBSA and feds have known about it forever:
      https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-organized-crime-warning-1.5584691

   4. When you find people smuggling, you publicly hang them. Making the consequences of getting caught steep enough and a lot of people will be deterred from taking part. It’s not a fool proof system, but it would help.

   5. It’s not as hard as it first appears. When the container leaves the port by road, it typically goes through a scanner that does a visual inspection to insure the container isn’t damaged. Some locations also do the same for the rail traffic.

      Now to actually inspect the cargo, you would just add a VACIS type scanner to the exit portal, and then have people monitoring it, and officers to respond if additional inspection is required.

      Why Canada doesn’t do that already, given that the technology is at least 25 years old, well that’s a political question.

7. Law enforcement can arrest until the cows come home. Until the Justice system and politicians are held accountable, there will be no real improvement.

8. 3.1 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) arrived in Vancouver in 2024.
   It didn’t all come from CHina

   The 7 million containers mentioned is pulled out of space.

9. Stupid question; Isn’t it primarily the receiving country’s responsibility to screen goods entering it? Does the U.S., for example, diligently scan and inspect all goods departing to China or wherever? Legitimately curious.

   Another thing I don’t understand is why this blog is posting things like this to help legitimize a foreign adversary’s poor excuse for a casus belli against our nation? Who does this possibly benefit?

   1. Keeping fentanyl out of Canada and reducing organized crime’s grasp on our country’s throat would benefit …. Canada and its citizens! Or keep your head down and hope the tiger eats you last.

   2. “ Another thing I don’t understand is why this blog is posting things like this to help legitimize a foreign adversary’s poor excuse for a casus belli against our nation?”

      The enemy of my enemy (liberals, Liberals, etc.) is my friend.

      “Who does this possibly benefit?”

      This blog’s owner and audience, and their sense of self.

      1. People have to get that bag somehow. What do you think the media that doesn’t talk about this is doing? Noble truth-telling without recompense?

   3. “Another thing I don’t understand is why this blog is posting things like this to help legitimize a foreign adversary’s poor excuse for a casus belli against our nation? Who does this possibly benefit?”

      It is superior to burying your head in the sand, only to be suprised when someone breaks with the “rules based liberal order”, i.e. starts telling the truth.

   4. Truth be told Andrew, if my countrymen ever found out ALL that your government has been up to, then suffice to say popular opinion would be far worse than it is even now (booing our national anthem, 51st state jokes, and trading barbs on social media are child’s play, a nothingburger easily overcome, a pressure release valve if you will). Be very thankful that the new government isn’t wanting to go that route, for now and contingent upon your government’s actions in the following days.

      Let’s hope that with these new measures some well needed and long overdue clean up takes place (for the benefit of both countries’ citizens, if not for the dirtbags what would ruin us all). It will also involve facing some inconvenient truths and accepting them (admittedly both sides of the border) — let’s hope that happens as well, so the general opinion and welfare (all sides) can be allowed to heal and get on a better footing.

      And let us also hope that leaders from both countries (and others involved), in an effort to save their own slimy little skins, don’t decide to do something truly boneheaded and get away with it. Otherwise there could really and truly be a casus belli of a scale of “Canada Delenda Est” would be the hue and cry of my nation’s people.

      So, look on the bright side: things could be a lot worse; we should all be grateful that they are not and with luck never will be.

10. ” … a foreign adversary’s poor excuse for a casus belli against our nation?”

    Holy Mackerel! Can I suggest a night-light from Amazon?

11. Having the world’s longest undefended border demands a certain amount of responsibility on both sides.

12. Every train entering the US is scanned as it enters. Coming into Canada there was nothing before I retired. CP and CN at Emerson/Noyes is my example. You would contact the border ahead of time and would have to wait when you arrived there and were given the ok to proceed past the scanner.

    1. They want to make sure that they don’t turn the scanner on before the humans passed it, there are 2 of them at Sarnia.

       1. Yes, usually right behind the cab of the locomotive.