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A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.

Edouard Lallemand, 60, said he nearly drowned during the ordeal last Sunday afternoon after the Coast Guard’s boat “pushed” his boat, causing it to capsize.

Days after the incident, he’s still shaken up.

“I’m never going to be the same,” he told CTV News.

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

“I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The act of "trying to push him into US waters" sounds like typical cop behavior. Pulled you over and can't find anything wrong enough to arrest you, so they push you around verbally or physically until you give them something to work with. Let me guess, they capsized the boat in their efforts, pulled him out of the water, and then said because he was on their boat now he's on American soil and therefore under arrest.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border

Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S

Wow, that's a loooooong push.

If they did kidnap a Canadian citizen the government should definitely put enough force on the border to prevent Coast Guard from crossing into Canada ever again.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago

There are around 55 kidnapped Canadians in US custody at any given time:

Global Affairs Canada said it's aware of roughly 55 Canadians in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, though it said that the numbers can fluctuate.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-ice-detention-1.7577584

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

I had to look it up. I think it’s a typo. Looks like it’s about 5km north of the border. It’s a suburb of Montreal. Most of the lake is in the US, but the tip is in Canada.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

An act of war if you ask me.

Round up all the Americans and toss em on Baffin island.

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Are you trying to make another australia!?!

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to assume you're a troll. Trump would love the excuse.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Baffin island would be our arctic Alcatraz.

(Is a troll anyone that makes sarcastic / satirical comments?)

Seriously, though...

It happens now or it happens later.

Doesn't matter what "excuse* he has.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you think the appropriate response to an act of war by a neighboring country is to punish the Innocent?

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Innocent?

Americans?

They're all members of MS13 or MI6 or IBM.

Terrorists invading our nation.

If they are innocent they can self deport.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Ahhh got it

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As if I don't have enough reasons to be embarrassed about my country.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You should be angry, not embarrassed.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

C'mon homie. It's obviously both.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Sounds like Canada needs to put some destroyers in the great lakes.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Saw this the other day on YouTube and the man was rightfully very upset. The man wasn't even in US waters, but the egos of the coast guards were hurt so they had to fuck with him anyways. They are doing the same shit as China now, and bullying people in the water.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

You know. I had just answered a guy talking about social media that did not have memes or tons of us politics and I said well I sorta gotta keep abreast because im in the shitshow but also sorta mentioned it would be good for people outside the us to get how bad it is so they can know how bad the us will treat them and if they should give the benefit of the doubt on "accidents".

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know it's not, but this somehow reminds me of the movie Canadian Bacon.

[–] NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a documentary. Canadian Bacon wasn't either. Micheal Moore saw that and said hold my Moosehead beer.