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Canadian attorney, Tavengwa Runyowa, will talk about how railway police officers have full criminal law enforcement powers in both Canada and the United States yet are full corporate employees with corporate Human Resource files in Canada. Rail companies such as Canadian Pacific and Canadian National can dismiss them at will, just like regular employees.
While representing his clients - the families of two deceased Canadian railroad workers - Mr. Runyowa learned how these companies abused their private police forces through acts such as asserting policing jurisdiction over deaths and serious injuries for which the companies may be criminally and legally liable. Mr. Runyowa asserts that railway policing authority in the U.S. raises considerable concern for our sovereignty, national security, civil rights, and constitutional rights.
This issue is particularly pressing since the Canadian Pacific Railway is in the advanced stages of merging with Kansas City Southern of Missouri. Although management and their new headquarters will remain in Calgary, Canada, effectively, they would acquire a statutory American police force through a private, commercial, cross-border transaction.
Tavengwa Runyowa will speak about his recently filed whistleblower complaint.
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