The "security trumps privacy" talk reminds me of "security trumps trade" talk in 2001/02. Took more than a decade to change approach. - posted on 07/06/2013 13:01:15
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Canadian Embassy in D.C.BORDER The case for a Canada-US land swap [Maclean's] Obama gets one border’s security right [Washington Examiner] Candidates should talk about the border [Grand Forks Herald] The end of Canada as a sovereign nation? [globalresearch.ca] Man awaits border crossing with deceased wife [Wenatchee World] TRADE/ECONOMY Canadian economy vulnerable [CP] Slowing economy tightens health squeeze [Vancouver…
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At last night’s Fox News Republican presidential debate in Iowa, the potential rivals spent a fair bit of time discussing Keystone XL — there wasn’t much disagreement among them on the subject. (Note — Gingrich says the Iranians are practicing closing the Straits of Hormuz. Not so, despite some earlier rhetoric about it. Also, the…
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John Barrasso, US senator from Wyoming and vice chair of the Senate Republican conference, spoke in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline on the floor of the Senate. (He claimed 20,000 jobs would be created. The number of jobs is disputed.) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) spoke on the…
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Chris Sands, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute here in DC, describes his provocative idea for a new approach to continental infrastructure projects such as Keystone, or the Detroit-Windsor project: a North American Infrastructure Planning Commission: An equal number of representatives of the three federal governments could consider scientific and engineering evidence and select among…
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BORDER Napolitano’s DHS comes around on pre-clearance [securitydebrief.com] Pre-clearance will be major hurdle in perimeter [Embassy mag] Plant-inspection pilot bodes well for US-Canada poultry trade [worldpoultry.net] Ottawa girds for legal battle over new Detroit-Windsor bridge [Globe and Mail] Bridge deal may lie in Michigan governor’s hands [Washington Times] The business case for second Detroit bridge…
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Press Office U.S. Department of Homeland Security Press Release Dec. 9, 2011 Contact: DHS Press Office, (202) 282-8010 READOUT OF SECRETARY NAPOLITANO’S MEETING WITH SECRETARY LAHOOD AND CANADIAN MINISTER LEBEL WASHINGTON, D.C.—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood to meet with Canadian Minister…
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BORDER Border deal vital to economy: Harper [Postmedia News] Manley: Border deal benefits US and Canada [Daily Caller] Halifax Gateway will benefit from border deal [Canadian Transportation and Logistics] Border will boost Ohio manufacturing and exports [Cleveland Plain Dealer] A game changer? Hardly [Globe and Mail] TRADE/ECONOMY Canada-US close to extending softwood lumber agreement [CP]…
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Date: December 8, 2011 For immediate release PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER ANNOUNCES CHANGES IN THE SENIOR RANKS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today the following changes in the senior ranks of the Public Service. David Moloney, currently Executive Vice-President of the Canadian International Development Agency, becomes Senior Advisor…
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Civil liberties groups have put out a joint press release critical of the border deal. One of their concerns is that Canada’s Privacy Commissioner does not have a role to play. I would note that in my interview with US ambassador David Jacobson this morning, he explicitly noted that the Commissioner would be involved in…
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Over at Macleans.ca, I spoke with US ambassador David Jacobson about the new border agreement. For the record, let me say that the ambassador rejects the football analogy – “game of inches” – used in my previous post to describe the incremental progress on border issues that this agreement represents. Jacobson, a long-suffering Chicago Cubs fan, says it’s better…
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