Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell
www.ctvnews.ca
A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.
  • grte@lemmy.ca
    161·
    3 days ago

    So the US is now kidnapping Canadian citizens from Canadian territory? Maybe our own Coast Guard needs to be deployed to defend us from these criminals?

  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 days ago

    Conventionally, and treatylyly, you can travel through US waters as long as you don’t intend to stop. Canadian ferries do this all the time. Someday soon, hundreds of Canadians are going to be arrested because US national security depends on a crisis to distract you from Trump’s latest embarrassment.

  • Corngood@lemmy.ml
    613·
    3 days ago

    Fuck the US coast guard and how they handled this, but the headline is pretty misleading.

    The coordinates given by the coast guard are indeed on the US side of the border. He says he was on the Canadian side, but it sounds like it was probably ‘near the US border’ more than it was ‘near Venise-en-Québec’.

    near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border

    If I measure on google maps it’s 7.8km to the furthest point on the lake, which is past the town. How do you get that so wrong?

    Edit: to be clear, I’m not defending the coast guard. I just think it’s worth noting that we’re reading an article that seems to get the basic facts wrong.

    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      63·
      3 days ago

      While there is a fair chance he was in American waters, there’s an equal chance that the Coast Guard is lying. Too often we’ve seen American LEOs bullshit their way out of stunts that should have landed them in jail. Especially now when the orange huckster seems to be readying for war.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
        54·
        3 days ago

        Paraphrasing their statement, they claim that he capsized because he suddenly turned to ram them when they were trying to board him because he was a few yards inside the US border.

        I find hard to believe that someone in a small slow boat like that would decide to ram a law enforcement ship and this puts the rest of the statement in doubt.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
      42·
      3 days ago

      The coordinates given by the coast guard are indeed on the US side of the border.

      Assuming we believe them, he was less than 60m over… on a body of water that would cause small craft to easily drift.

      Any human to human interaction would have them asking the guy to mind his boat and to return back to the Canadian side.

      Instead, they capsize the boat, kidnap, and jail him. This is another example of US aggression towards ordinary Canadian citizens, and we should not be ok with this.

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      The issue is not the location it’s the fact they jailed him and fucked up his boat over something that the Americans do constantly to our waters. Shit Ross lake is horrid for Americans coming onto the Canadian side to fish, they rip up in powerboats and cause trouble.

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      3 days ago

      This photo is rostered so Canada is on the left. The distance chart is on the bottom right. 5km sounds like a stretch