Our nations share the world’s longest secure border; approximately 400,000 persons and goods and services worth about US$1.7 billion cross it daily.
Quite understandably, Americans and Canadians have long negotiated, usually successfully, trade issues, including softwood lumber, supply management of dairy products, lobsters and salmon, pre-clearance, and country of origin labelling, overflowing border lakes, oil and natural gas pipelines, regulatory alignment, and of course, the boundary location itself.
