Only 40 percent of Canadians and 20 percent of Americans have passports. I am not a fan of WHTI. But at least it attempts to solve the conundrum of improving border crossing documents without requiring everyone to spend $97 to purchase a passport that takes six to eight weeks to get delivered. Already. the rumors that a passport is required for Canadians to drive into the United States have cost our economy over half a billion dollars. It also obviously affects the Canadian economy. One planned multimillion dollar resort complex in British Columbia was scrubbed based on the threat of a passport requirement. Yes. its true that the Canadians are more liberal with their immigration and asylum policies than we are. But I am satisfied that the Canadians are addressing border security in a responsible fashion. With the new Conservative government in power in Canada. I am more confident that they will continue to fix the problems in this area left undone by the previous Liberal government.
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