All Your Border Are Belongs to Us

Stephen Harper, our intrepid Prime Minister of this northern nation, dared to venture south into the land of tea parties with no tea to talk to their embattled Muslim radical-Christian socialist death-panel Kenyan president Barack Obama. The little sojourn took place at the White House and the major topic on the agenda was border security. Sure, Americans fear terrorists will stream through the porous border with Canada, the longest undefended border in the world. But Canadians fear all the undocumented Mexican workers living in the US walking to the Canadian border to fill out asylum claims. Thus, the two countries have decided to band together. My border is your border kind of cooperation. More information will be shared to nab undesirables while trying to keep the border as open as possible as to not impede the largest international flow of goods in the world -- more than a billion dollars worth of trade crosses the Canada-US border each day.

The details of the agreement are a bit sketchy right now, leading opposition leaders to claim that the Prime Minister is selling out our Canadian sovereignty on border control in order to appease the restless giant to the south. Bah...just a bunch of predictable noise makers. How I long for those days when I could cross into the US with just my library card. OK, so it wasn't that easy, but I did flash my citizenship card with my 12 year old picture on it and that allowed me enter the US and re-enter Canada. This was all pre-9/11 of course. While I certainly don't expect things to go back to the way they were a decade ago, I hope this new understanding will, at the very least, make those border agents less of a power-tripping SOB than they usually are. I mean, if they search my car one more goddamn time...