If BS could protect Canadians, we'd be the safest country in the world............What have they done, not what are they going to talk about

"In the absence of that threat, she said security officials "are remaining vigilant."

But critics weren't buying it.

"The Canadian Press quotes you reassuring Canadians that their government remains vigilant," Ron Moran, head of the Customs Excise Union, wrote in a letter to McLellan.

"Unfortunately, that is not the message customs officers would have me share with media.

"On a daily basis since the first bombings in London and increasingly today, customs officers from across Canada have called my office to inform me that their work site is not in a state of heightened vigilance.

"We are calling on the Canada Border Services Agency to immediately begin development, for implementation as soon as possible, of a national Customs public security policy. Such a policy does not exist and must."