Canada–Come for the Bingo, Stay for the Jail

She was handcuffed, interrogated, and strip searched by border guards. A jar of motor oil in the back of her vehicle tested positive for heroin, and thus began a horrible ordeal by a 66 year old grandmother that resulted in spending 12 days in a remand center. All charges of drug trafficking were dropped when the test that originally detected heroin was proved wrong – there was no heroin.

What US border station did this atrocity happen at? None. It was at the Canadian border station at Sprague, Manitoba. Watch this interview with Mrs. Goodin to hear the details of her ordeal:

Well doesn’t this just give us an insight into the inner workings of our CBSA agents. An organization that demands truth and honesty is free to make up things like how a drug-sniffing dog found traces of cocaine, pot, and meth. Also, we don’t really know details yet of how that test was performed…and was a second one done to ensure that the first one was correct?

And the crown in this case, asking that she *not* be allowed to stay at her daughter’s home because she’s a flight risk? You’d think we elected our crown attorneys and someone was up for a re-election year, having to show how “tough on crime” he/she is.

This is the type of thing that happens in the movies, and/or in different countries; not Canada! The CBSA has a great deal to explain here, and Vic Toews has already asked the CBSA head to provide a report on the incident. Of course, we may never know how badly they screwed this incident up citing the oh-so-convenient “privacy concerns”.

Mrs. Goodin, on behalf of my country I apologize for your ordeal and I hope that if you do decide to bring civil action against the CBSA, that you win and get every dollar you deserve for such an obvious abuse of power by a group of empowered bullies!