This thread is getting mighty whiffy. Take a wider view gentlemen. This is not the fault of one person, one party, one ideology. This is the law of unintended consequences. This is the same as having to surrender your phone at a border crossing, allow harddrives to be copied, cross border snooping, etc. We get down in the weeds on if x or y knife is acceptable but what we need to be asking is why is it a border control issue? What set of circumstances let us to get here. There is a lot of unintended moralizing already in this thread, as always happens "My guy would never do that, its someone else's fault" but the reality is that the entire system was built by both sides. This should be an apolitical discussion. How can we get to a point where fear isn't what is setting the guidelines? Look I'm just another idiot with a keyboard and even I'm seeing the very real links. Not stretching out into conspiracies, but very simple links. The cop pulls you over for a tail light to see if he has justifiable cause to search your car, might help him look better to his superiors. Border control, having been tasked with warrant-less surveillance needs some way to thin the options, or have probable cause for direct searches, or some public facing reasoning other than "Papers please". This is what we as a society, both north and south of the border have asked for. The CBSA walks in lock step with DHS. If this is something that needs to change, then it needs to change broadly, not just a little nibble on the corner for the thing I want. I have no dog in this fight since I'm no longer able to have a voice there. Look to groups like the EFF (electronic frontier foundation) and similar to support. Gotta let some of the symptoms run their course, in the mean time, we need to focus on the illness.
