In Surrey (B.C.), U.S. ambassador rules out open border with Canada

[Newsjock]

Source: Canadian Press

The U.S. ambassador to Canada says a European Union like arrangement where citizens can freely cross national borders is not in the cards on this side of the Atlantic.

David Jacobson says each European country has had to partially surrender sovereignty and he doesn't think the U.S. or Canada would be willing to do that.

Jacobson made the comments while speaking to students at Simon Fraser University in Surrey, B.C.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Oh, fer Chrissakes (to quote Pitt).

It always use to fuckin' BE that way until our current nationalist "anti-terror" frenzy provided cover for fucking it all up.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Well, you still had to go through customs and immigration when crossing the border

so it wasn't exactly an "open border". And as a US customs officer explained to me at a lonely border crossing in Montana back in 1989, "if you hadn't stopped (at the immigration building), we would have had to chase you down and arrest you". Apparently, they had been having a problem with that sort of thing.

[Amonester]

2. Us Canadiens don't want our Health Care sys to lose any sovereignty...

to begin with.

[cartach]

4. Canadians are getting screwed enough with

the so called Free Trade Agreement,why would they want more of the same. Who ever heard of the US getting the short end of the stick in any arrangement wtih another country? History speaks for itself. Sounds like this Jacobson is using a bit of reverse psychology to open up the subject hoping to push it along.

[UBEEDelusional]

5. If the US and Canada had an open border I think we would see a big shift in people

large numbers of liberals and progressives would more to the Great White North and Canadian regressives would move South.