Canada Wastes a Billion Dollars to Arm Border Guards

Published December 3, 2008

Canada doesn't have a billion dollars to waste on border security measures that don't work.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what the current government has offered Canadians with its decision to arm Canada's border guards.

The Harper Conservatives have put nearly all other border security measures on the back-burner in order to channel resources towards a dubious policy whose hefty price tag keeps climbing.

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