Perimeter Security Pact and Entry Exit

Canada: Under the 2011 perimeter security pact, Canada and the United States agreed to set up co-ordinated systems to track the entry and exit information of travellers, according to The Chronicle Herald. For the moment, the system involves exchanging entry information collected from people at the land border — so that data on entry to one country serves as a record of exit from the other. The government introduced legislation Wednesday to implement the final phases of the data-collection system, which is two years behind schedule, with the aim of saving tens of millions of dollars annually. The first two phases of the program have been limited to foreign nationals and permanent residents of Canada and the U.S., but not citizens of either country. The data includes the traveller name, nationality, date of birth and gender as well as the country that issued their travel document. Under the new legislation, the initiative would be expanded to include information-sharing on all travellers crossing the land border. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.