Violating your Civil Rights Every Day! Canada's Border Services Agency, CBSA.

you're not willing I think I have civil
rights why do you think they passed this law why is this a any any further personal information is inappropriate why do you think that why do you think problem is it's m-city why I've been treated very relevant for hours you can cross-examine you can't make it go there to break that look aside I'm so happy you're going to listen yeah hey if you're one of us okay I've been held for like two hours and interrogated about my relationship with my ex-wife and my relationship with my mother okay and that's a violation of my civil rights okay under Canadian law under Canadian law this is the law in Canada the last time I took a complaint to CBS a yeah they told me specifically I do have the right to film you I do it varies from all of the stuff unlike other countries but you can that is partly so that film a that's not were debating I'm not the minors to come in and fill me I prefer you not to but you can okay so there's nothing he's now saying you didn't tell me not to film him and you told he's totally be bad those feeling that he never said you know let's get so video had it done all right thank you thank you for theirs when I talk to higher levels the organization yeah they told me care code that one of the very few civil rights I have is to record these interaction okay because there's no other oversight over cpsf okay but little thanks your time doing you went over there all right what questions were asked don't though I was asked questions I put my personal I let me finish I thought that was just don't see us hurt like you don't start a conversation with an officer that hasn't dealt with you let's go bro legislation about what you can get asked or not right with all the respect you had a baby you know let me think right you had an issue with an officer there no I wouldn't say so okay I didn't ice right no point did I say you I had an issue with an officer okay wasn't okay so what's the problem well the problem is that in Canada okay under the law after you identify yourself as a Canadian citizen if you have something like a passport or equipment there no further questioning is appropriate you're a supervisor yeah and you're unaware of what the law is I am very aware with the lies and I know what I can I'm you're holding it here not listen I'm holding it in my hands right here are you gonna listen can I finish my thought happy to listen can your snow any age right now they just stopped it again do I look at her age as a Canadian citizen by law you're allowed to enter in Canada am i right actually yes right is that true correct correct but when they ask you questions about your travel to different area of the world they may be asking you questions to assess risk about the goods you have in your possession today good did you did you get a universe degree for dings 3 oh am i answering those kind of work do you want to disc it so I stated political science ok all right I understand the way the law works ok there's a constitution there's a law okay and then there's a guideline okay we didn't do everything you've just said to me is contrary to both the law and the guideline okay now with all you simply it's quite likely the staff here maybe they only heard the guideline at the time when they first got their training definitely first we're prepared in the job and they haven't heard your fears there may be some reason what's wrong with you me still having like oh okay I'm sorry they can ask you questions whether you have the right to refuse to answer yes okay right like for nationals so that's that's the way you have that right right that's your interpretation if I saw it but what the actual law says is it's a quite right here for you it is not appropriate for Border Services to elicit further personal information from kids isn't what's personal information what were you asked oh I'm asked all kinds of things what's personal okay what was i studying was that the duration of the course your personal information I've also been asked about my girlfriend and my relation with my mom I'm asked all kinds of support where you asked under yeah I just being water when you asked here I was asked about what I was studying and how many months the course wasn't so on I said I'm sorry with all due respect under anaphor okay unifor is what government CBSA okay yeah CBS answers to parliament period how many hours no intermediary how many acts re-enforces that's one act right no it's not I can tell you what the document is I can answer that question this is si no this is explaining to you the difference between how you treat foreign nationals Canadian citizens the second part that you have not accepted is that we also handle the customs out that really led to theirs in relation to your goods right I've read all that too so when the officers asked you questions but they're mitigating risk regarding your goods and if you're unwilling to answer those questions that's fine you're not obligated to answer any questions by an officer because your Canadian citizen so one funny clarification I want to add is you'll notice that in keeps insinuating that he has the right to ask me the questions but I have the right to remain silent that's what a lot of people think based on watching American television but that's not actually the law in Canada what the law in Canada says is that it is inappropriate for him to ask you the question that's fundamentally different from saying well they can ask all the questions they want and I have the right I can sit there and say no I choose drumset that's not what the law stands so in terms of what your civil rights are and how to know when they're being violated this is a distinction with the difference I think you're in for a shock if you take the kind of see what enf says okay like we're not gonna go you're not willing I think I have civil rights why do you think that passed this law why is it say any any further personal information isn't appropriate why do you think the boys think problem is it sensitive why agree to disagree you have your own way of dealing with it and I am telling you what our so processes so let me ask you know when you read this question when you read this statement yeah it is not appropriate to elicit further personal information are you doing this statement right I'm not so therefore if I am asked about my relationship with my mother sure that's CNF for if I'm asked for the information about my relation with my mother or my girlfriend or you know anything along these lines so you more or less the same wording appears again again page after page in uniform it workers again and again to remind you okay no it's not you're not okay here listen can I go this you're gonna I mean completely happy to listen to everything I'm completely I would list there's two things right so immigration refugee Protection Act your Canadian citizen right once I formulated in my mind that your Canadians is right I will not question where are you regarding anything regarding your entry into Canada as a lawful citizen right right when we look at your goods like we have that's a different Act right so we're asking you questions to mitigate risk but what you have in your possession that you're bringing back into Canada the last time I went through a situation like this they tried to use the same excuse rationale being any questions that are related to the contents of your package but then they justify any questions whatsoever including questions about your mom your ex-wife's what you do like they can ask questions or haul it because supposedly it's all related to your package now it will be a very different situation if that were true legally right if that were the law that might be an interesting game we could play we don't live out of those rules but that is not what the law says just put that down so my question to you why would I ask your questions ago my relationship with my mother my relation with my girlfriend questions your eyes I know you don't tell me what question I did I've told absolutely peeling so what did I say you say I don't list hasn't there okay so you say you say that I don't listen but this is an example of you know losing you last us three times okay that's why laughing over the question no now she's at my office right so does this ring a bell I told you I was asked about what I studied okay how long the course lasted okay let's set her always asked question so you don't think she's trying to mitigate risk with your good possibly know where does he know I think this law was written we're just working for reason I think I think the fact that I don't have to ask any answer any further questions as soon as I've proven that I'm consistent I think that really means something okay I think you guys are really forgotten that Parliament passed laws that the way you treat Canadian citizens supposed to be utterly different from I've been all over the world okay nowhere on earth am i treated worse than I can visit on how I've been treated very verbal every note for hours you can cross-examine you can't make it great that aside I'm so happy you're going to listen yeah hey if you're one of us okay I've been held for like two hours and interrogated I've got my relationship with my ex-wife and my relationship with my mother and that's a violation of my civil rights okay I've had my completely lawful boring possessions taken away from me destroyed I've had wrapped presents opened all which is again contrary enough for no reason other than intimate recipe that is never hatch me as a foreigner it's never happened in Cambodia okay it's never happened in communist China that's never happened in communist Laos I've traveled all over the world a morganatic interviewers Canada treats me worse so I looked into what are my civil rights and I'm shocked to find out I have we have some really important civil rights in Canada okay but people who work of water services don't what seems quite say look I'm happy to answer the question conversationally where are you coming from what was your how was your trip just on the level conversation yeah look if you're gonna ask me a personal question we can we have that comically so I can assess your risk yeah because you okay this and fair enough look let's get through this okay yeah do you want to be here all day with me oh absolutely I got busy you know what I would love it for you to sign for you to violate my civil rights more I would love it cuz I've dated this woman's don't persecuted by CPS same person but no you're not do this okay but what am I suppose my civil rights are channel and my way personally I don't know where the question mr. Merz argh yeah sure I don't disrespect okay but listen like like I have work to do right and talk to you what's the moral of the story here Yeah right they had no officer right to question community right they weren't able to let me finish stop right right that's fine you can do that but apparently I can't let me finish I think you were being referred and they're going to talk to you mitigate the risk and then cut you loose if there was no concerns but you got into a conversation with her about this law right right where was I don't want to question what person what that's I don't want to that's fine but they still haven't gotten to the end right they haven't been able to ask you questions to mitigating the rest no wearing in a for did I see my punishment what I'm afraid I throw away my civil rights that's what I'm afraid of how are your civil rights being thrown away but this document describing silver and I've asked you where in the EDF documents maybe not be EDF for where does it describe the procedures arguable this kind of question so we're done okay yeah so I don't think you know I don't think you've ever looked at okay didn't think what you like okay gian think sincerely there's any wearing an app that describes the procedure you're describing yell cuz I've read the document I don't see anything like that I see that it's unlawful as far as I know into Kineo what you're sure I completely well I'm telling you right now I know it's business as usual mitigate the risk with you right now and you're gonna go into second your no you're not all that this is a fair way declaration I know that's best as usual in Canada but I told you so you said I know ENFP 83 you said that you know enough there's 90 so can you tell me is there a section if you have to discuss that there's a better than you do he keeps suggesting that there's some other act that you know defines the procedure is following what enf is is a summary of all of the acts of bonds so that they know what to do in practice that's normally called a guideline in Canada well look see again I can answer these questions but do I have to in terms of my civil rights I mean I can I can break down when I'm doing it I want you can just tell me were you there for school for many months or what were you working there this point why do I have civil rights you know if you say to someone you have the right or in telling you just said I don't dance these questions so do I have to answer them or not because I say I've had the experience of being held for hours but if you don't mean like midnight and 2:00 a.m. okay no I have never seen in enf any description the person described I don't see anything like that so the ironic Dinu mole into that story I'm still here on the airport in front of these fabulous quasi religious statues the funny irony to the story is I'm sent to so-called secondary secondary processing and I talk to like three people there and they're like the nicest guys I've ever dealt with poker services just you may have this really great conversation which I didn't record as you can see like you know the guys just go yeah how long you've been learning Chinese one of the guys he himself had tried learning Chinese and gave up and I was like no you know learning Chinese can take you 10 years he was like yep that's the truth he asked me about my trip to Greece okay they did they didn't even search my bags they didn't search my bags that it across to me they didn't ask any inappropriate questions about my relationship with my mother or my ex-wife or my daughter it was perfect it was the epitome of professionalism and it was a really friendly positive experience so you know in some ways I wish I'd recorded it but of course if I had the camera it was recording it probably they would have been freaked out and it wouldn't have been quite as nice and experienced probably it's too old and pretty fresh too though so they go takes all sorts man but civil rights exist for a reason rule of law exists for a reason if you think it doesn't why do you think we have that law in first place [Music]