Feds going with naked airport scanners
Posted Jan 5, 2010 01:00:36 PM.
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Transport Minister John Baird says the government will install dozens of scanners that can see through the clothes of travellers in airports across the country.
Ottawa is buying 44 of the machines, each will cost about $250,000.
They say they will also set up an airport watch system to look for suspicious passengers and tab them for enhanced screening.
For now, the new scanners will be set up in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver.
The move follows an apparent Christmas Day attempt by a Nigerian man to blow up a jetliner over Michigan by igniting explosives sewn into his underwear.
The system has been part of a pilot program at the
Kelowna airport.
It will be business as usual at the Region of Waterloo International Airport.
General Manager, Chris Wood tells 570 News no flights from here head to the United States.
