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• Documents released to the Guardian show Tuscan contains more than 680,000 names provided to every border guard
• Database is effectively a second Canadian no-fly list, run by the US

Revealed: Canada uses massive US anti-terrorist database at borders

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By -- Guardian —— Bio and Archives June 22, 2018

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Canadian border guards have been screening travellers using a huge, secretive US anti-terrorism database that is almost never referred to publicly, new documents reveal. The database, called Tuscan, is provided to every Canadian border guard and immigration officer, and empowers them to detain, interrogate, arrest and deny entry to anyone found on it. -- More....
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