- "Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan" sounds like he's referencing an existing line item already included in this year's budget.
- "reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology, and personnel" sounds good, but it's also the kind of blurb their border agency puts at the top of their budget request every year.
- "10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working" if journalists were still worth a damn, they might ask him to clarify how many are working already, and how many new people they're hiring after speaking to Trump, if any.
The 2nd part looks slightly new. A fent czar, big deal. Designating cartels as terrorists is nice, but how much terrorism fighting capability does Canada even have? Is that just going to debank whatever Mexican gangsters are weird enough to bank in Canada?
24/7 eyes on the border sounds good in theory, but that's the part that should have the most details and it's the most vague. A joint strike force sounds like the only real good new thing, but it depends on detecting incoming shipments early enough to mobilize them. And again, how much capability do they have?
Cranking my cynicism way up, this sounds like the most new things they're doing are bureaucracy, "streamlined" bureaucracy for US coordination, and
maybe some additional physical security.
