{"id":46244,"date":"2026-07-03T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46244"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:21:48","slug":"not-our-job-to-ensure-border-patrol-helicopter-could-fly-in-canada-rcmp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46244","title":{"rendered":"Not our job to ensure border patrol helicopter could fly in Canada, RCMP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/federal\/not-our-job-to-ensure-border-patrol-helicopter-could-fly-in-canada-rcmp-says\/article_aa75841e-c421-43ca-960b-47ef24197c0b.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/67c74ef067732.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:197px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The RCMP says it wasn&#8217;t its job to ensure its newest border patrol helicopter was allowed to fly in Canada, even as it defends paying for the Black Hawk it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/federal\/not-our-job-to-ensure-border-patrol-helicopter-could-fly-in-canada-rcmp-says\/article_aa75841e-c421-43ca-960b-47ef24197c0b.html\">Not our job to ensure border patrol helicopter could fly in Canada, RCMP says<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Because they were originally designed for the American military\u2019s use before being sold to independent operators who refurbish them, the Black Hawks are not certified in Canada and cannot be used here without Transport Canada exemptions.<br>&#8230;<br>After a push by some industry players, Transport Canada stopped issuing those exemptions, indicating it needs time to evaluate their commercial use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCMP says it wasn&#8217;t its job to ensure its newest border&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1829,2263],"class_list":["post-46244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-helicopters","tag-rcmp","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46247,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46244\/revisions\/46247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}