Canucks use Yankee anti-terror database at borders

Trudeau: "A Loony for your thoughts"
Obama: "No worries, Trump will never win"

Canadian border guards have been screening border crossers using our huge, secret US anti-terrorism database that is rarely spoken of publicly. It's called Tuscan and is provided to every Canadain border guard and immigration officer, eh. It empowers them to detain, interrogate, arrest and deny entry to those found on it.

Although the database is used in Canada, it is maintained exclusively by the U.S. and contains personal information of as many as 680,000 people believed by the U.S. to be linked to terrorism. It's like a no-fly list kept in secrecy.

The Canadian official no-fly list is known as Passenger Protect Program and lists known and suspected terrorists forbidden to fly to or from Canada. [One wonders if the list also includes the names of those terrorists who have been released back into Canada from Gitmo.] This list has about 100,000 names and the Canadian government has been polite enough to allow terrorists and others a redress to apply for removal from the list.

But Tuscan is huge in comparison and there isn't a process in Canada to have your name removed from the list other than blowing yourself up at the airport while shouting a religious slogan. Even if there was another way to be an unlisted terrorist or a simple traveler, the U.S. is not obligated to remove your name.

Sorry Mo.

Canada's no-fly list only applies to airports but Tuscan extends to every land and sea border in Canada, as well as visa and immigration applications.

Ottawa while never formally recognizing the scope of Tuscan, is forging ahead with a closely guarded plan to expand and update it.

The list was first created in 1997 as a consular aid, but after 911 it was repurposed and expanded. In 2016, Justin Trudeau and his BFF, Barack Obama, agreed to expand it even further.

If President Trump gets his way, the list will include members of Hollywood, WikiLeaks, Facebook, Amazon, the DNC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, CNN, MSNBC and the Mueller team.


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