TODAY’S NEWS – March 23, 2007

SPYS AMONG US…
Source material I stumbled upon, The Office of National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX) report on “foreign economic collection and industrial espionage” includes info on who is doing what in violation to export regs. This report is issued every year in August. It’s worth reading.

CANADIANS DECRY DISCRIMINATION –
As it happens – the US International Traffic In Arms (ITAR) regulations conflict with Canadian discrimination laws and the there has been an outcry against restrictions continue in the name of what is called racial discrimination.

This article in the Public Service Alliance of Canada decries the ITAR policy as “racist” in the name of the United Nation’s International Day for the Elimination of Discrimination.
“Many of the Canadian companies in the aerospace industry affected by ITAR are recipients of federal contracts and bound by the Federal Contractors Program, which calls upon them to ensure that they comply with the federal Employment Equity Act.”
Read the article at the Public Service Alliance of Canada BC website.
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