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    EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblowers say organized crime has infiltrated Canada’s largest airport
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    EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblowers say organized crime has infiltrated Canada’s largest airport

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    1. MourningWood1942 on

      And the ports. Wonder if it’s the same well known motorcycle club

    4. SwimmingDownstream on

      “Baggage handlers are not airport authority employees – they are employed or contracted by individual airlines.’

      So nice that they are taking zero responsibility for the security of baggage going through their airport.

      So if a bomb gets through they’d shrug and say the same thing?

      How is this an acceptable stance…

    6. soothukundi on

      I worked for Swissport at Pearson Airport as a baggage handler for 3 months in a summer while I was in university. As a baggage handler, I quickly realized that it wouldn’t be difficult for me to smuggle shit out of the airport. Let’s assume a small package is coming in a red luggage, with a triangle sign, from Trinidad on a Caribbean Airlines flight at 2pm. Let’s assume the scheduler, another baggage handler and I are in on this. The scheduler can schedule just me and the other guy to unload baggage from that specific plane. There is an entire underground mini city under the airport with many doors and entrances.

      Those luggage buggies will drop those small luggage carts. The driver will unhook and leave. All I and the other guy have to do is look for the red bag with a triangle, unzip it and if it is combo-locked, just put the combo(which will be given beforehand)unlock it, find the package and put it in my lunch bag/work bag that I’m allowed to keep it with me all the time. Then I can just zip-up the bag and put it on the conveyer belt to go up for the passenger to pick it up. Then I just walk back to locker drop my bag. Then when my shift is over, I just leave.

      The baggage are only scanned while they go up for the passenger to pick it up. There are cameras but no one is monitoring 1000s of airport workers all the time and there are many hidden spots and i can even climb inside the baggage cart and I’ll be blocked from all 3 sides.

    7. Excellent_Walk7821 on

      As someone pointed out, if youmcan smuggle drugs on a plane youmcan also out a bomb on a plane

    8. Doobiedoobadabi on

      Blaming this on the front line workers of billion dollar companies is funny… if the whistleblowers want reform, respect the level of devotion the job needs and pay them accordingly

    9. noBbatteries on

      Wait until they see what’s going on at the ports. Organized crime has always had a hand in border crossing services and international shipping and receiving.

    10. Top_Statistician4068 on

      The only ones at fault are risk-adverse lawyers at Transport Canada who have a narrow view of what is dangerous. They view access as a right instead of an extreme privilege.