Traduction de «Fermer les eaux » (Français → Anglais) :

Thousands of homes were destroyed, schools closed indefinitely, businesses and farms wiped out – often in communities that were previously in receipt of European structural funding.

What that clearly shows is that drinking water is first among all foodstuffs, and that we must, of course, protect our groundwater throughout Europe, so that we do not end up in future turning our own tap off and sentencing future generations to a similar fate.

Rather than wrestle with obtuse notions of asymmetrical threats and fluctuating international terrorist threat levels, I shall address the question under the assumption that, to meet the broad security objectives I mentioned earlier, essentially in the context of exercising control over Canadian waters and being able to make the ports secure, the government needs to be able to do are the following. First, apprehend, quarantine, if necessary, and search any vessel and its cargo, including people; second, conduct underwater searches of ships, berths and access channels; third, conduct explosive ordnance disposal, EOD, operations; fourth, control all movement on the water and ashore within the confines of a port or in a specified coastal ar ...[+++]ea — that is, basically shut down the system, which may be necessary; fifth, transport specialist teams, such as JTF2 and the RCMP teams, to remote locations and offshore installations; sixth, provide physical security for buildings, structures and facilities, such as land line terminals, bridges, locks, radio stations and all the infrastructure that makes the shipping system work; seventh, gather, analyze and disseminate intelligence and operational information; and finally, detain and interrogate suspects.