RCMP deploys helicopters to patrol Canada-U.S. border amid tariff threats

RCMP successful Quebec contiguous showed disconnected a Black Hawk chopper added to their fleet to beef up information astatine the United States border.

The show successful St-Antoine-Abbé, Que., comes arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to enforce tariffs connected Canadian exports for what helium has called Canada’s nonaccomplishment to curb the amerciable travel of radical and drugs crossed the border.

Nationally, the Mounties person chartered 2 Black Hawks to adhd to their existing fleet of 9 smaller helicopters.

Sgt. Charles Poirier says the caller choppers volition assistance the constabulary unit to screen a immense borderline country and intervene overmuch much rapidly if determination is simply a spike successful borderline crossings.

However, Poirier says helium wants to reassure Quebecers surviving adjacent the borderline arsenic good arsenic the U.S. medication that the concern is presently nether power and determination is nary migration “crisis.”

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Since Trump’s predetermination victory, Ottawa has pledged $1.3 cardinal to summation borderline security, including 60 caller drones successful the aerial on the borderline and much surveillance towers.