Border security: what the U.S. wants, Canada gives—to its peril

What is conceded today becomes the foundation for further concessions tomorrow.

In the centre foreground, Andrew Leslie, left, parliamentary secretary to the foreign minister for Canada-U.S. relations, walks with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Parliament Hill in March. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland is in the back right.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GAR PARDY

April 19, 2017

OTTAWA—It’s been 15 years since that fateful day on Sept. 11, 2001 when the centres of American society and government were attacked. And like July 28, 1914 and Sept. 1, 1939, the world changed. The government and people of the United States in a fit more of anger than sound policy embarked on ...

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