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Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained and put in jail cell. He was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, roughly 15 kilometres north of the border when the U.S. Coast guard showed up (www.ctvnews.ca)

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[-] Corngood@lemmy.ml 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fuck the US coast guard and how they handled this, but the headline is pretty misleading.

The coordinates given by the coast guard are indeed on the US side of the border. He says he was on the Canadian side, but it sounds like it was probably 'near the US border' more than it was 'near Venise-en-Québec'.

near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border

If I measure on google maps it's 7.8km to the furthest point on the lake, which is past the town. How do you get that so wrong?

Edit: to be clear, I'm not defending the coast guard. I just think it's worth noting that we're reading an article that seems to get the basic facts wrong.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 63 points 3 days ago

While there is a fair chance he was in American waters, there's an equal chance that the Coast Guard is lying. Too often we've seen American LEOs bullshit their way out of stunts that should have landed them in jail. Especially now when the orange huckster seems to be readying for war.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Paraphrasing their statement, they claim that he capsized because he suddenly turned to ram them when they were trying to board him because he was a few yards inside the US border.

I find hard to believe that someone in a small slow boat like that would decide to ram a law enforcement ship and this puts the rest of the statement in doubt.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 days ago

The coordinates given by the coast guard are indeed on the US side of the border.

Assuming we believe them, he was less than 60m over... on a body of water that would cause small craft to easily drift.

Any human to human interaction would have them asking the guy to mind his boat and to return back to the Canadian side.

Instead, they capsize the boat, kidnap, and jail him. This is another example of US aggression towards ordinary Canadian citizens, and we should not be ok with this.

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days ago

The issue is not the location it's the fact they jailed him and fucked up his boat over something that the Americans do constantly to our waters. Shit Ross lake is horrid for Americans coming onto the Canadian side to fish, they rip up in powerboats and cause trouble.