Aren't you glad they're so focused on security that you can't carry (much) toothpaste on a plane?

I seem to remember a similar story in Montreal a couple of years ago wherein a reporter did something similar.

Two men in baseball caps and windbreakers breached the perimeter of Pearson International Airport on Sunday. Stepping out of a van on a public roadway, then passing through doorways they spent half an hour lingering around the tarmac.

They spoke to airport workers, but faced no questions as to what credentials they had used to gain access to one of Canada's most important transportation hubs. If anyone had bothered to ask, they might have been shocked.

One of the visitors was federal Transport Minister John Baird. The other was Colin Kenny, the Liberal who chairs the Senate's national security committee. On that rainy afternoon they decided to leave their partisanship behind in Ottawa to fly to Toronto to check on airport security themselves.

What they found alarmed them.

"No one stopped us. No one asked for a pass," said Mr. Kenny in an interview. "It's not mischievous, it's due diligence."

Source: Globe and Mail