The Canada-US border seems to be missing

[Joe Republic]

Link


Canada-U.S. border seems to be missing
 
Sheldon Alberts, CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, October 07, 2006


WASHINGTON -- The United States is eager to install a battery of surveillance towers, motion sensors and infrared cameras to monitor the Canada-U.S. border.

Now if only they can find it.

After years of neglect and under funding by Washington and Ottawa, the International Boundary Commission admits it can no longer identify large swaths of the Canada-U.S. border, particularly in heavily forested areas overrun by dense shrubbery and sprouting trees.

"I can send you places where you just can't find the border," says Dennis Schornack, the U.S. commissioner for the boundary agency, the bi-national organization which maintains the 8,890-kilometre border.

"In the worst spots, it looks like you are in some kind of primeval forest."


Cont.

[John Dibble]

I thought we integrated Canada years ago? What's this aboot a border?

[ottermax]

Why do we need surveillence cameras in the middle of forest.

[bullmoose88]

Why do we need surveillence cameras in the middle of forest.

Wanted

Yusif Yogi BinBear...last seen in the woods.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Why do we need surveillence cameras in the middle of forest.

Wanted

Yusif Yogi BinBear...last seen in the woods.

Suspected of smuggling using pic-a-nic baskets.

[Josh/Devilman88]

Maybe one day Canada will become part of the US and we all join hands and sing songs.

[The Dowager Mod]

54'40" or fight!

[Josh/Devilman88]

I have to say, and this might be a bad thing, but I can care less if we don't have or find borders between the US and Canada. I just care the the borders between the US and Mexico stands. Maybe because Canada and the US have alot in common.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Patrolling a border with Guatamala would be eaiser than patrolling the mexican border. I say we should just annex the whole enchilada now. We're already getting/already have a good chunk of mexico's population here so why not get the land?

[Josh/Devilman88]

Patrolling a border with Guatamala would be eaiser than patrolling the mexican border. I say we should just annex the whole enchilada now. We're already getting/already have a good chunk of mexico's population here so why not get the land?

We could but I don't think the Mexican government would like that.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Like it our not we're going to get it. And by "it" I mean a supranational state encompassing the US, Canada and MExico.

Look at

http://www.spp.gov/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Task_Force_on_North_America
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/printer_4218.shtml

for more information.

[Josh/Devilman88]

What would the name of the Nation be? The United States of North America.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

North American Union

[Josh/Devilman88]

I wouldn't mind that, seems kinda cool.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Me neither the only problem is that this arrangement would only really start improving thinfs if we cut off outsourcing to china and we did for mexico what Japan did for the asian tigers. Basically boost it up to the first world.

[MasterJedi]

Just find out where the parallel runs and there ya go.

[Joe Republic]

I have to say, and this might be a bad thing, but I can care less if we don't have or find borders between the US and Canada. I just care the the borders between the US and Mexico stands. Maybe because Canada and the US have alot in common.

It might be a bad thing?  Try; it is a bad thing.  Let's look at a few possible scenarios:

A bunch of tourists from some hellish second- or third-world country manage to save up enough money to take a vacation to Canada, particularly to see the scenic forests of southern Ontario or Quebec.  Then suddenly, the whole group of them just *disappears*.  Now where on earth might they have gone to, I wonder?

Or...

A group of terrorists notice that traveling directly into the United States to wreak their havoc has become intensely difficult due to DHS measures.  So instead, they decide to take a 'vacation' to Canada... etc. etc.

You get my point, I hope.

[Joe Republic]

Just find out where the parallel runs and there ya go.

Uh huh.   Good luck with that:

[Platypus]

Just find out where the parallel runs and there ya go.

Uh huh.   Good luck with that:

You forgot Poland!...uhhh, I mean...Alaska!

[ag]

BTW, Mexicans don't need a visa to enter Canada.  There are a bunch of non-stop flights from Mexico City to Toronto, Vancouver, and, I think, Montreal. Finding a ticket for around USD$400-$500 is not too difficult. This, of course, is substantially less than the going rate for coyotes to help you cross the southern border. The only reason this route is not used is that people who'd cross the border illegally don't know about it. If you make it too difficult to cross from the south, they'd learn, though.

BTW, as far as the "terrorists" are concerned, Canada is, clearly, a much easier route than Mexico. For starters, for citizens of most "problem" countries, getting a Canadian visa is much easier than the Mexican one (I used to carry a somewhat "problematic" passport myself, so I can testify to it personally: Canadians are relatively sweet and gullible, Mexicans are much more hardline, suspicious and slow, and, in any case, double-check everything with the US already). Also, there are many more direct flights from the "old world" to Canada than to Mexico (from Mexico you can fly non-stop only to Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Tokyo).