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Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 28, 2004 at 04:26:41 from (216.208.58.115):
In Reply to: Re: shipping tractors from Canada to US - its ove posted by HarryG on November 27, 2004 at 16:05:07:
Harry: I agree our borders have been much too easy, but you guys are much too paranoid. With the technology available to our governments, 9-11 should never have happened. Someone was asleep at the switch. The technology does exist that could eliminate need for any personell at border. Will it be used? Heck no, look what it would do to employment. Customs and Brokers have become and industry. You go to a border crossing like Sarnia-Port Huron or Detriot-Windsor. Just think how many people that must employ coast to coast. Now if that was made as simple as crossing from state to state or province to province, think about the efficiency it would create for industry both sides of border.
Efficiency, now there is a forign word to both our governments. Governments must constantly think of ways to employ the unemployable. In nova Scotia we used to call it welfare and the rest of Canada laughed at us. Here in Ontario they just take those guys to work and let them do nothing. Either way society pays the bill. So nowadays Governments give them a title and put them on payroll. I'm sure you can see the same on your side of border.
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