Canadian Airport Passengers Still Carrying Forbidden Items

MONTREAL -- Despite tighter security at airports since 9-11, many travellers are still carrying forbidden items into their carry-on luggage.

At Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport this year, passengers have surrendered water pistols, tools, knives and scissors.

From January to October, passengers at Trudeau airport handed over some 700 toy weapons and firearms and 28-thousand sharp objects including knives, box-cutters and scissors.

The haul was just over 11-thousand in the tools, clubs, bats, bludgeons and flammable irritants category.

Anna-Karina Tabunar (tah-boo-NYAHR') of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority says people may have become complacent.

She also says when travellers are screened, they're becoming more angry and see it as more of a hassle than an important part of air travel.

Tabunar says it's discouraging.

Last year at 89 Canadian airports, more than 738-thousand objects were seized.

So far this year the tally is 450-thousand.

(Gazette)

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