Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama met in Washington today to discuss security in North America and the ongoing Egyptian crisis. Both agreed to collaborate to ensure better security, economics and trade across the Us-Canada border.
President Obama stated, "We've had a very successful day. We've agreed to several important steps to increase trade. It's also about finding new ways to improve the free flow of goods and people."
Obama promised to rid north americans of regulations that hinder goods and services as the US and Canada are "interwoven".
CTV stated, "It's believed a new border plan would include joint inspection agencies, placing U.S. food inspectors inside Canadian production plants and vice versa, the harmonization of regulations on food and manufactured goods and greater sharing of intelligence."
Opponents to the collaboration feel that Canada's uniqueness as its own nation could be sacrificed by such security changes while Obama said that Canada and the US are 'essentially on the same page'.
Both leaders hope the plan will be able to be implemented in 2011. The plan is meant to make sure that trade flows more smoothly while still keeping stringent security in place.
(via CTV News)
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