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Originally Posted by fredr123
http://canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.d...07bcpc224.html
What bothers me about this case, and how some officers at the border conduct themselves generally, is the attitude of the officers towards the law.
"I can search for whatever I want wherever I want."
"You aren't permitted to leave but you have no rights unless I say so."
"I spend dozens of hours every month interviewing people crossing the border and my instincts and suspicions are infallible."
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You seemed to have a hate on for customs people...
The individual displayed non-verbal indicators from original questioning until they found the drugs. You can't just ignore that. As previous case law has stated a person is not considered detained will a routine examination is being conducted but they also cannot leave.....why are you mad about that? You think that they should be able to leave if they want to?
Just like any other job, people know what is normal and what isn't. These officers can pick up on peoples behavoir when it is not normal. The officer questions hundreds of people and hour....they all act pretty much the same and then comes buddy who is nervous. They are going to pick up on that.
The biggest thing in this case is before they did any king of removing or drilling the dog indicated that there was drugs present....that alone is enough to have reasonable grounds to believe there are drugs present.