Guest M. McRae Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 Does make one go HMMMMMM ...... If the Senate does not know where the money is going, then what chance does the taxpayer have in finding out? (N) Sat, May 31, 2003 Flight crews not terror ready By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN Canadian airline flight crews are still waiting to be trained how to handle terrorists or hijackers 20 months after Sept. 11, says the head of a Senate committee. Colin Kenny of the committee on national security and defence also said Pearson airport's high-tech fingerprint machines and luggage bomb detectors aren't being used. "We don't know where the money from the air security tax is being spent," he said. Senators have threatened to withhold funding from the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority until they know how the money is being used. Air security officials refused comment. END OF THE YEAR Airline crews are to be trained to handle terrorists by the end of the year and luggage on all domestic and international flights won't get bomb-detector checks until 2006. Automated fingerprint identification system machines, which check fingerprints against police databases, won't be ready to screen refugees for several weeks, immigration officials said. Pearson officers are being trained on the machines, to be operating by the end of June. Following Sept. 11, Ottawa purchased 54 fingerprint machines at $106,000 each and $1 million in bomb detectors for airports. http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/05/31/99809.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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