Canada Watch: Terrorists’ Right To Fly The Friendly Skies in Canada

Victoria B.C. November 2005

Toronto Sun: No-fly list to ignore terror ties

Belonging to group won’t be enough to be deemed air threat

Being a member of a terrorist organization won’t necessarily land someone on Canada’s no-fly list, The Canadian Press has learned.

Proposed criteria would limit inclusion on the roster to those who pose “an immediate threat to aviation security,” Transport Canada internal briefing notes say.

Draft regulations, disclosed by a source familiar with details of the plan, confirm the no-fly list will be tightly focused and reviewed every 30 days to keep it up to date.

“You cannot be put on the list on the sole basis that you’re a member of a ‘terrorist group,'” the source said. “In addition, you have to be a demonstrable threat to aviation safety.”

The source said that under the proposed regulations, people involved in a terrorist group — either now or in the past — could be added to the list only if there were reason to suspect they may “compromise civil aviation, the security of any aircraft or aerodrome, or the safety of the public, passengers or crew.”

Does that mean you have to carry a box-cutter and threaten a flight attendant to be a “demonstrable threat to aviation safety?”

Now, we wouldn’t want to inconvenience any terrorists who want to KILL US, would we?

Remind me to not fly to Canada anytime soon and how about an embargo on flights originating in Canada to the United States?

Blogosphere:

Captain Ed has Canada To Terrorists: Fly The Friendly Skies

Even if one discounted the 9/11 attacks as a warning to Western aviation in general, Canada shows a remarkable lack of concern for their citizens. Terrorists have hijacked airplanes for at least four decades now. Instead of screening people to deny access to acknowledged terrorists, Canada will need to institute stricter gate security and inconvenience everyone — and still won’t be able to guarantee that the known terrorists won’t do something. A member of al-Qaeda could simply pull open a cabin door at 37,000 feet and have a good chance of killing everyone on board.

Travelers have been warned. (via Hot Air)

Hot Air has Friendly skies: Canada greenlights terrorists for air travel

Which I guess means Mohammed Atta is okay to fly Air Canada so long as they don’t find out about the pilot lessons.

Ace has Canada Decides Terrorists Have Right To Fly

Isn’t the membership in a terrorist organization ipso facto proof of a threat to aviation?

Did they miss that whole people-jumping-out-of-buildings and towers-falling-to-the-ground kerfuffle a few years back?

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