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OTTAWA — Border guards at Canada’s second-busiest airport are miserable, according to a recent employee survey obtained by Postmedia News that suggests managers don’t communicate with staff, “nepotism and cronyism” is rampant throughout the hiring process, officers don’t feel adequately trained and morale is at an all-time low.

According to the survey, just three per cent of Vancouver International Airport employees rated morale as “positive” and even the Canada Border Services Agency admits in an internal report that this has since become a “running joke.

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“Members at (Vancouver International Airport) formed a ‘VIA three per cent movement’ to mock the survey results,” added Customs and Immigration Union local president Dan Robinson who describes the busy British Columbia airport as “one of the unhappiest places on Earth.”

But dissatisfaction among border officers, he and others argue, doesn’t end in B.C. They say it extends right across the country, in large part due to budget cuts and belt-tightening as the government seeks to slay the deficit.