Canada Border Services Agency: Gary Filmon

Border Crossings Dept: The union that represents front-line customs and immigration officers issued a news release Wednesday praising Toews -- the public safety minister responsible for the Canada Border Services Agency -- for killing a proposal to close or reduce hours of operations of small and remote border crossings, according to Winnipeg Free Press. At the time, Toews told the Free Press there was no truth to the report, adding it went counter to the initiative the government had recently taken to make small border crossings more viable and vIC Toews had an anti-union reputation as Gary Filmon's labour minister in the late 1990s but at least one union is now ready to embrace him. Jean Pierre Fortin, president of the Customs and Immigration Union CIU , said he was pleased with Toews' quick response last week to news reports that a joint task force of American and Canadian officials had targeted several small and remote border crossings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.