U.S.-Canada: world’s longest over-defended traffic jam.
Financial Post, September 12, 2008 - “Right after 9/11, it was obvious that America’s borders were shutting tight and that Canada and Mexico should have become part of a three-country perimeter. Under NAFTA, this is the case involving economic goods. Product origins are checked because they cannot be back-doored through one of the three countries into another. But the movement of people, tourism and immigration, should also be a jointly-managed affair. It isn’t. And in the absence of that, the Americans have erected fences along portions of the Mexican border and red tape and hassles along the northern border.” Read more.
