Follow-up to arming border guards

Cost estimate for arming border guards doubles

Andrew Mayeda, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, November 03, 2006

OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency now estimates it will cost $1billion over the next decade to arm land and marine border guards, roughly doubling the previously announced yearly cost of the program.
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Update to http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/121055.html

A billion dollars for a gun registry that
didn't/
won't/
can't work,

a billion dollars to give pistols to border guards that will
never be used/
used on each other, by accident or design/
only be waved in the faces of uppity tourists,

sigh....