It’s time for a serious rethink on Canada’s border strategy

A new strategic vision for the border must be part of a broader policy discussion around an updated, modernized national security plan and it must not be monopolized by the experience of COVID-19.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who is responsible for the Canada Border Services Agency, is pictured in Ottawa on Nov. 30, 2021. While novel technologies will prove difficult targets for border controls, the use of emerging technologies as a tool of border management also presents its own host of troubling ‘opportunities,’ write Neil Desai and Cathy Munroe. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and Flickr photograph by Dennis Sylvester Hurd

Opinion

BY NEIL DESAI AND CATHY MUNROE

January 12, 2022

The unprecedented threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced unprecedented responses, not least in Canadian border security management. Faced with the surging Omicron variant, the Government of Canada is once again advising against non-essential travel. But whatever happens in this latest COV...

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