Border Insecurity: Consquences -- Does this Mean there Goes Canadian Business with the US, unless Border Security Gets Adequate Funding?

The Americans have Annie's financial shell games figured out

Long term, on the Canadian border, the water and these open land borders presents a huge problem but I don't believe they are, in the short term, as critical as the computers at the major border crossings and the airport.

American 'patience running out' over border -- Congressman says 'spend some money' Adrian Humphreys, National Post, April 12, 2005

The United States is running out of patience with gaps in Canada's border security and warns it risks becoming "a junior partner" in continental affairs unless it plugs the holes, says an influential U.S. Congressman who sits as the senior Republican on the Homeland Security committee.

[. . . . ] Mr. Souder is a senior member of the Homeland Security Committee and since 2001, has chaired the Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, which has jurisdiction over the U.S. government's domestic and international anti-drug efforts.

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to keep the relationship going
needs to be a commitment out of your legislature
Anne McLellan
as critical as the computers at the major border crossings and the airport
computer database systems
Russ Hiebert, a Conservative Member of Parliament who co-chairs the Parliamentary Border Caucus
increase the presence of officers at our border crossings
$9-billion -- Comment: this amount has risen from $8-billion, and Cdn. Ambassador Frank McKenna mentioned $10-billion -- Check this site for that post. Is there something very wrong with Liberal Mathematics ability?

Note: Souder did NOT even mention drugs.