Immigration Controls Dept: We share responsibility for the safety, security and resilience of Canada and the United States and we intend to address threats at the earliest point possible, including outside the perimeter of our two countries, says a draft agreement intended to be signed by Harper and President Barack Obama, according to The Star. The proposed pact envisions closer cooperation among police, security and military officials, as well as shared border management facilities, increased exchanges of law enforcement information and enhanced cooperation by authorities on both sides of the border to verify travellers identities and conduct screening at the earliest possible opportunity and oTTAWA In what could be the biggest challenge to Canadian sovereignty since free trade in the 1980s, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is secretly cooking up a deal with the Obama administration that would give Washington a much bigger say in Canada s border security, immigration controls and information-sharing with American law-enforcement agencies. Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Competitiveness is the title of the tentative deal, which carries the subtitle: A Declaration by the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of Canada. As
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