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Chris Selley: The chilling airport bag-switching scandal suggests Canada still lacks adult supervision

The fix here was and is so easy: Screen airport workers the way we screen passengers.

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Never let it be said drug smugglers aren’t ingenious, especially if no one is trying very hard to stop them. CTV’s astonishing-but-also-kind-of-not-astonishing reporting about organized crime groups operating behind the nominal security barrier at Toronto’s Pearson Airport lays bare a truly expert gaming of what is apparently a mostly unguarded system.

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The story as it stands is about drugs, incoming and outgoing. But it could easily be about something far worse. This scam is alarmingly reminiscent of the sort of security lassitude that led directly to the Air India bombing in 1986, at a cost of 268 Canadian lives and 39 others.

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