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Tyler Anderson
\nMontreal Gazzette<\/a>
\nMarch 4, 2010<\/p>\n

QUEBEC \u2014 Starting in December, some passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States without ever landing there, will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not terrorists.<\/p>\n

Secure Flight, the newest weapon in the U.S. war<\/a> on terrorism<\/a>, gives the United States unprecedented power over who can board planes that fly over U.S. airspace.<\/p>\n

Secure Flight applies to flights to, from or over the United States, from Canada<\/a> to another country. Flights between two Canadian cities, that travel over U.S. airspace, are excluded, but about 80 per cent of Canadian flights to the Caribbean and other southern points and to Europe fly over the U.S.<\/p>\n

The program, which is set to take effect globally in December 2010, was created as part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism<\/a> Prevention Act, adopted by U.S. Congress<\/a> in 2004.<\/p>\n

Read more: http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news<\/a>\/gets+which+Canadians\/2639893\/story.html#ixzz0hE0cQL98<\/a><\/p>\n

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