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Harper, Obama to push for major border deal Officials say Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama will launch formal negotiations Friday to ease the flow of goods and people across the border, while enhancing perimeter security -- and they want a deal completed within the year. Sources say the agreement would include joint border inspection agencies, relocation of U.S. food inspectors agents to Canadian plants and vice versa, greater sharing of intelligence, and harmonizing regulations on everything from food to manufactured goods. "This could be the most significant development in terms of Canada's border and trade with the U.S. since the 1988 free trade agreement," CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife said Thursday night.
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
In Canada we can still get real organic non genetically modified produce, we can still get clean meat that is not pumped full of antibiotics and steroids.
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
I am not quite too sure what to think about this, ...
John Manley, CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and a former Liberal finance minister under Jean Chretien, said he hoped that the talks would help the two governments drag their shared border "out of the 19th century and into the 21st."
When it comes to cross-border trade, shipments by train have sped up due to new technologies but trucks moving between the two countries are "still very slow," he said.
"The things that we do on the border in the name of security as well as enforcement of regulations, most of which makes no sense whatsoever, is ridiculous," Manley said.
Originally posted by saltheart foamfollower
If I was Canada, I would watch out for your oil sands. Would not want anyone in the NAU to be self sufficient, you Canucks are too comfortable up there. The rest of the world needs some of your redistribution.