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Canadian law enforcement agencies couldn’t seem to agree Thursday who should take the lead investigating a series of bomb threats — all fake — against WestJet flights over the past week.

Should it be the local police agency where the flights were forced to land or where the threat originated? Or should the Royal Canadian Mounted Police oversee all the cases?

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The confusion over jurisdiction is likely not the news officials want to hear at WestJet, which likely has been dinged thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for each of the diverted planes.

The latest bomb threat came Thursday against flight 1709 from Las Vegas to Victoria. Passengers had to disembark in Victoria without their luggage and wait as police and a canine team searched the plane. An airport spokesman said the threat was not credible.

Bryce Fisher, an aviation consultant and former Transport Canada regulator, said he assumed the Mounties would take the lead since civil aviation is a federal matter and the threats targeted the same airline.