Sheesh -- what a dumb idea.
The economy is bad -- so, let's close down cross-border trade with our biggest trading partner.
WASHINGTON — The Harper government has flatly rejected the spectre raised by an influential U.S. senator of requiring Canadians to obtain visas to enter the United States following the release of an "alarming" report about security along America's northern border.
The development came Tuesday as Senator Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the U.S. Senate's powerful Homeland Security committee, commented on a report that found the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency provides an "acceptable level of security" along less than one per cent of America's 6,400-kilometre border with Canada.
Lieberman said the challenges posed by the world's longest non-militarized border were complicated by the fact that "most Canadians do not need a visa to enter the United States."
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Joe is way beyond his "best before date".
I guess since they can't make any headway against the Mexican border without losing votes, they'll pick on Canadians again. Pathetic political move.
Just how would a Visa help? We have to show ID/passport every time we cross right now. It's documented. They know exactly who we are, what we do, etc. It's not the "legal" border crossers at the crossing they need to harass. If they want to prevent illegals from crossing, they should just deploy their army along the border. Should take about 2 million soldiers to patrol every 10 feet of undefended border.
This sounds more like a cash-grab to me. They could charge $$$ for visas. Of course, they'd have to spend those dollars to bail out the dead border towns which wouldn't have customers anymore...
More fear-mongering and empty rhetoric...
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