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OTTAWA-- Transport Canada has directed airport security screeners to allow passengers to take books on board flights to the United States after what a spokesman said was a misunderstanding about new restrictions on carry-on luggage after the aborted Dec. 25th airline bombing.
The clarification Wednesday came as the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization prepared to kick-start talks next week that will determine which, if any, of the emergency measures introduced in North America and elsewhere since the bombing attempt should be made into harmonized global regulations. Transport Canada spokeswoman Melanie Quesnel said passengers in Canada heading to the U.S. "can bring books on planes."
Group lauds exemption for kids
TORONTO -- Some security experts are wary of an exemption that would mean air travellers under age 18 aren't subject to the same security screening as other passengers.
In announcing that dozens of scanners that can peer through clothing will be installed at airports across Canada, Transport Minister John Baird also said children under the age of 18 won't have to go through the scanners.
But a group dedicated to preventing child sexual exploitation is applauding the exemption as protecting children's privacy.
"I think it's a good thing," said Norman Boudreau, vice-president of Beyond Borders.
"I think it would be actually improper for the security to have children under the age of 18 to go through the scanner."
Privacy czar wants answers
OTTAWA -- The federal privacy czar wants to know more about government plans to scrutinize passenger behaviour at Canadian airports.
Chantal Bernier, the assistant privacy commissioner, says her office has questions for the air security authority and Transport Canada.
The privacy commissioner plans to ask for details of the program in a coming meeting with federal officials on air security issues.
President mad, but no one fired
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama is talking tough about the "near-disastrous" intelligence failures that resulted in a Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines jetliner by a man alleged to be an al Qaida operative. But no one -- not officials in the CIA, the FBI nor any of Obama's key cabinet members -- has been fired, including Janet Napolitano, the homeland security czar who insisted in the immediate aftermath of the near-catastrophe that "the system worked."
-- From the wire services
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 7, 2010 A4
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