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Originally Posted by Knalus
It does if it was a part of the Treaty. You may remember that these treaties were the way that the country was founded in the first place... the same country that wants to disregard the treaty.
I'm all for re-negotiating the treaty, and disbanding the idea of Native Reserves in the first place. But if you are going to be very strict about border security because you believe the idea of Canada is truly important, then you should probably want to respect the treaty rights. If you think that Canada should serve the people who live there, then perhaps you shouldn't be so strong in your wish to protect the agents of the government from the people they supposedly "serve".
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Well is that what the treaty says? That border crossing has been there for decades, so I am pretty sure the border crossing is allowed to be there.
They are not disputing the fact that the crossing is there, they are disputing the fact that the officers are being armed. I am going to venture a guess that the treaty is silent when it comes to arming Border Services Officers.
This is what they are saying.
"Their biggest fear is that because of the animosity that exists right now, that one of them young people that has guns in there [and] three weeks of training, probably no psychological testing either – that one of them is going to lose it in there and kill one of our people," said Cheryl Jacob, district chief at the Akwesasne Mohawk Council.
They're so nasty and harassing our people that we can almost feel ... their finger being itchy on the trigger," said John Boots, a Mohawk from Akwesasne. "That's how bad those people are. The customs officers."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/st...r-guns001.html
These people just need to STFU and follow the rules and the laws like all the other Canadians that use the border crossings.