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By Peter O’Neil, Vancouver Sun March 18, 2013
The Harper government refused Friday to explain why it is co-operating with a B.C.-based reality show that has obtained exclusive rights to film busts of drug smugglers and “phoney immigrants.” Criticism mounted Friday, with charges the government violated the privacy and dignity of those filmed during production of Border Security: Canada’s Front Line. Opposition MPs said it’s a misuse of tax dollars and resources, in order to promote the government’s and the Conservative party’s law-and-order agenda.
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Posted by admin on Mar 18th, 2013
Published: March 18, 2013, 12:00 pm. Canada.com
Deportation should not be a form of entertainment — at least according to those who have signed a petition aimed at the cancellation of a show on the National Geographic Channel.Border Security: Canada’s Front Line has been the subject of growing controversy for filming the raids against illegal immigrants and then airing them as part of a reality show. Word that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews personally signed off on the production of the show — after Canadian Border Services Agency agents were accompanied by cameras during a bust — accelerated the backlash against the program.
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DANIEL BITONTI. VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Mar. 18 2013, 5:24 PM EDT
Federal Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews came under fire in the House of Commons on Monday over documents showing that he gave the go-ahead to negotiations for the production of a reality TV show about Canadian border agents making immigration raids. The documents were released just days after a raid was filmed in Vancouver. NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison said during Question Period that Canadians across the country are shocked about the government’s approval of the idea, adding the raids are not some episode of Cops.
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By Cara McKenna, The Canadian Press Posted: 03/18/2013 5:06 pm EDT | Updated: 03/18/2013 9:50 pm EDT
VANCOUVER – Illegal immigrants take advantage of Canadian taxpayers — not the other way around, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told critics in Parliament as he defended the use of reality TV cameras on immigrant raids. The federal government is facing criticism on several fronts for its approval of the TV show focusing on border security after camera crews filmed the arrest of several men in Vancouver last week by officers with Canada Border Services Agency.
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The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted: 03/18/2013 7:38 pm EDT | Updated: 03/18/2013 7:40 pm EDT
The wife of a migrant worker, whose arrest by Canadian officials was filmed by camera crews in Vancouver, has started a petition to get a reality TV show cancelled. Diana Thompson’s husband, Tulio Renan Aviles Hernandez, was one of the workers taken into custody at a construction site last week, for not having legal working permits. The raid happened in front of crews from “Border Security,” which is broadcast on Global TV and the National Geographic Channel. The show follows officers from the Canadian Border Services Agency.
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