🇨🇦 121 bricks of cocaine found, and Ottawa still managed to blow the case

A Windsor judge just tossed charges tied to 121 bricks of cocaine, up to $13.2 million, because CBSA officers violated Harinder Singh Saini’s Charter rights seven times during a strip search the court called degrading, humiliating, and wholly unnecessary. No supervisor approval, no proper notes, no access to counsel before the search, and officers apparently trained in a way a judge described as a system problem. The border state that lectures Canadians about safety and compliance could not even follow its own law, as reported.

This is the Trudeau-era Canadian formula in one case: porous borders, bloated bureaucracy, performative enforcement, then institutional incompetence so severe even a life-sentence prosecution collapses. The cocaine is seized, the accused walks, and the public gets another sermon about confidence in our institutions. Wonderful. A sovereign country secures its border and prosecutes traffickers cleanly. This managerial regime cannot do either, but it can always produce a spokesperson, a review, and a fresh excuse for why Canada keeps looking less like a serious nation.

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