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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by dmix on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:20PM (#19834457)
Probable cause is a core part of the Canadian charter:

> 3) based on reasonable and probable grounds to believe that an offence has been committed and there is evidence to be found at the place to be search.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/chec...

This is not some unique American concept. Otherwise I don't see what point you're trying to make...

Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by lsiebert on Sunday May 05, 2019 @11:54PM (#19836733)
Though Canada's constitution has this weird ability to suspend fundamental rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...

Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by derefr on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:25PM (#19834485)
Yes, both countries have a concept of probable cause, but they have different definitions of what constitutes it—of which only a little is what is spelled out in the charter/amendment; most of the effective criteria come from case law.

In other words, just because this kind of profiling wouldn’t constitute probable cause in the US, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t constitute probable cause in Canada. (I’m not sure that it does constitute probable cause in Canada; I just don’t know for sure that it doesn’t.)