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[Jedburgh]

The Ottowa Citizen, 20 Mar 08: Elite military unit's blueprints for new HQ found in trash can

Plans showing the layout of a new building for a Canadian Forces counter-terrorism unit based in Trenton, Ont., have been found in a pile of garbage on Bank Street.

The 26 blueprints, stamped with Department of National Defence markings, show everything from the location of the security fence to the floor plan of the new home of the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit at CFB Trenton.

The unit is the military's main responder to a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction......

....it's an odd coincidence that they just happened to be found by an analyst from the Rideau Institute.

[Ken White]

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....it's an odd coincidence that they just happened to be found by an analyst from the Rideau Institute.

Beyond odd...

[marct]

From the Globe and Mail...

Photographs provided by the Rideau Institute show that the schematics provide ample information about the layout at CFB Trenton and the new building, including sensitive details about the security fencing, the electrical grid scheme and the sewer system.

Just lovely! But, lest you give the Rideau Institute too much credit

The blueprints list the names of six private contracting firms, including Smith and Andersen Consulting Engineering - which has an office near where Mr. Salloum found the plans - and Wood Banani Bouthillette Parizeau, another consulting engineering company. Both declined to comment.

Of course, there is always this encouraging little note...

Mr. Salloum said he didn't take all the documents stamped with Department of National Defence markings at the Ottawa trash pile, saying he left six to eight other rolls of papers at the curbside.

[Billy Ruffian]

Wow, that's almost as good as the time when the JTF2 guys had their van stolen from a Tim Horton's parking lot with disassembled pistols and their security cards inside. Or that one time the CSIS official had her laptop and all the classified documents inside stolen from her car while she was at a Leaf's game.

[Norfolk]

Wow, that's almost as good as the time when the JTF2 guys had their van stolen from a Tim Horton's parking lot with disassembled pistols and their security cards inside. Or that one time the CSIS official had her laptop and all the classified documents inside stolen from her car while she was at a Leaf's game.

And don't forget the Indians calling up JTF 2 on their secret line and, the piece de resistance, JTF 2 arriving in the Balkans in the spring of '93 with their names on local posters and prices on their heads.

[Billy Ruffian]

Holy smokes Norfolk! Do you think we should check to see if the government has left the keys to the country in the ignition?

[marct]

Holy smokes Norfolk! Do you think we should check to see if the government has left the keys to the country in the ignition?

What ignition?!? Anyway, I'm sure that this incident was caused by a Freedom Of Information request that was submitted in English and read in French .