Un autre motif d’interrogation pr\u00e9occupante des Canadiens, c’est le comportement US \u00e0 l’\u00e9gard de la fronti\u00e8re commune. Bien entendu, comportement parano\u00efaque et schizophr\u00e9nique, aveugle, bureaucratique, totalement imperm\u00e9able au bon sens, as usual<\/em>. Les Am\u00e9ricains ont install\u00e9 une base, d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 des moyens consid\u00e9rables, ils surveillent cette fronti\u00e8re selon le principe que toute personne qui la franchit d’une mani\u00e8re qui n’est pas conforme aux normes am\u00e9ricanistes est par d\u00e9finition coupable, charge \u00e0 elle de prouver le contraire, et bonne chance. Quant aux normes am\u00e9ricanistes (l\u00e9gales) de franchissement, les voici : \u00ab The only honourable obligation of those attempting to cross is to show their passports and keep their hands where the guards can see them. It’s about as friendly as the Afghan frontier; about as visible as once the Berlin Wall was.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCette remarque d\u00e9sabus\u00e9e et d\u00e9senchant\u00e9e et extraite de l’\u00e9ditorial du Times Colonist<\/em>, du 7 septembre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tIl y est \u00e9crit \u00e9galement:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab Since Sept. 11, 2001, it has become regarded even more as a sieve for drugs, weapons, illegal aliens and, most of all, terrorists. President George W. Bush warned Americans on Tuesday that terrorist cells operate in Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb The Harper government has done its best to make Americans feel better by announcing that Canadian border guards will be armed. The U.S. government has responded by announcing that armed Black Hawk helicopters and planes with fighter-jet radar units will be used to increase security.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb There’s little reason for this to make us, on this side, feel safer. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection says anyone crossing illegally will be considered a terror threat until proved otherwise.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb Anyone who tries to cross into the U.S. surreptitiously for any reason is foolish, and always has been, but it’s doubly so now that there are armed American border officers overhead who assume that he or she’s a terrorist.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’auteur est scandalis\u00e9. \u00ab By treating Canada as a no-man’s land in the Bush administration’s proclaimed war against terror it is insulting Canadians as neighbours and allies.<\/em> [] We’re outside fortress America. Putting armed helicopters over our undefended border is unfriendly and offensive.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa situation sur la fronti\u00e8re ne fait que se d\u00e9t\u00e9riorer de ce point de vue de l’agressivit\u00e9 defensive am\u00e9ricaniste et de la x\u00e9nophobie s\u00e9curitaire. Le gouvernement conservateur \u00e9tait certain d’avoir r\u00e9gl\u00e9 le probl\u00e8me apr\u00e8s une rencontre avec GW Bush au d\u00e9but de l’ann\u00e9e. Mais la bureaucratie de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 aux USA, comme les autres, ne fait que ce qu’elle veut et rien d’autre. La situation devrait notablement s’aggraver avec l’installation de la nouvelle base US signal\u00e9e plus haut, qui abritera le Northern Border Air Wing, la chose \u00e9tant annonc\u00e9e le 6 septembre<\/a>: \u00ab As Canadian border guards look forward to having guns on their hips within a year, the Americans will soon be patrolling the U.S.-Alberta border with two Black Hawk helicopters and planes equipped with radar units taken from F-16 fighter jets.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n