On Monday, the Canadian government proposed a budget of 1.3 billion for border security following a threat by President-elect Donald Trump to impose a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian products going into the US unless the country cracked down on the illegal flow of narcotics and migrants entering the United States. The funding would consist of establishing a new joint "strike force" to combat organized crime, as well as supplying helicopters, drones, and mobile surveillance towers to the RCMP, the CBC reported. https://thepostmillennial.com/canada-launches-1-3-billion-border-security-initiative-after-trump-pressured-trudeau

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has launched a new biometric border management app it calls ReportIn that allows permanent residents, foreign nationals, and refugee claimants to meet reporting obligations remotely. This includes individuals who must report to border agents while awaiting deportation or final decisions on their immigration status in Canada. CBSA’s ReportIn app is similar to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) also relatively new CBP One app, in that both apps aim to enhance efficiency in immigration processes and overall border security. However, both apps also present strikingly similar privacy and civil rights concerns. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202412/reportin-and-cbp-one-a-tale-of-two-biometric-border-apps

President-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose a sweeping 25% tariff on all goods and services from Canada, Trade between Canada and the US is the largest of any two nations, with cross-border trade totaling $926 billion in 2023—roughly $2.5 billion daily. This dark tariff reality for Trudeau of not responding adequately to Trump's border security demand risks pushing Canada into an economic crisis. The new border proposal outlines the deployment of drones, helicopters, and other advanced technologies along the 5,525-mile northern border. David Asher, who previously led a Trump-era task force on fentanyl, commented on the border proposal. He appeared on CBC News Network earlier this week to share his insights. "US law enforcement has a lot of sources telling us - that not only the Mexican cartels are setting up operations in Canada - but also Chinese organized crime - and even Iranian organized crime..." He stated that all three organizations were tied into a massive bust in Vancouver of drugs and chemicals equal to more than 95 million pills. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-era-official-blasts-canada-over-fentanyl-super-labs-transnational-crime-gangs

"The Department-level review will provide multidisciplinary expertise—including public health, scientific, security, intelligence, countermeasures, and preparedness and response—to evaluate these proposals. ... HHS is a major funder of influenza research, and as such will need to determine which, if any, HPAI H5N1 gain-of-function research projects are acceptable for HHS funding." A Framework for Guiding U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Funding Decisions about Research Proposals with the Potential for Generating Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Viruses that are Transmissible among Mammals by Respiratory Droplets 2013 https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/Documents/funding-hpai-h5n1.pdf

(Bloomberg) -- Canada is deploying what it calls an “aerial intelligence task force” as part of a new C$1.3 billion ($908 million) plan to address US President-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about migrants and fentanyl flowing across the northern border. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will operate the task force, made up of helicopters, drones and mobile surveillance towers. It’s one of multiple measures unveiled by the Canadian government on Tuesday in an effort to avert Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on all goods from the country unless it boosts border security. The announcement comes a day after the country’s finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, abruptly resigned, accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of failing to seriously prepare for a Trump presidency. She was replaced by Dominic LeBlanc, the public safety minister who released the border plan on Tuesday. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2024/12/17/canada-expands-aerial-border-surveillance-to-pacify-trump/

WATCH: Poilievre OWNS CBC reporter on border security! 'You ask a classic CBC question, which is how much money can you spend on a problem,' Poilievre told a CBC reporter. 'That's exactly the question Trudeau has been asking for nine years.' 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.rebelnews.com/watch_poilievre_owns_cbc_reporter_on_border_security

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Note something about Bill - 63, We are increasingly concerned about the radicalisation of minors, and minors who support, plan or undertake terrorist activities. Radicalised minors can pose the same credible terrorist threat as adults, and law enforcement and security agencies cannot address this issue alone. https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/Unclassified-Five-Eyes-CT-minors-paper.pdf

See this visualization ON Countries worldwide have been increasingly imposing tariffs on China’s tech industry to address concerns over economic dependence, national security, and market fairness. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countries-are-putting-tariffs-on-chinas-tech/

Countries worldwide have been increasingly imposing tariffs on China’s tech industry to address concerns over economic dependence, national security, and market fairness. https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/which-countries-are-putting-tariffs-chinas-tech