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2006-06-06 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-06-06 00:39|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I think that our immigration laws as they are implemented are very close in the outcomes as the United States immigration laws,"

Exactly.

Posted by Rafael 2006-06-06 01:19|| 2006-06-06 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a wild rumor that we're all in this together. Silly, I know. We're not at all alike. Their football fields are all skewed out of proportion. Way too big. Lets the skinny little shits get away instead of being crushed like ripe grapes, the way it oughtta be. Okay, so I always hated those little fast guys. Fucking Canadians. Letting skinny little shits get away like that. Good thing I don't hold a grudge.

Posted by flyover 2006-06-06 03:23|| 2006-06-06 03:23|| Front Page Top

#3 You forgot your [/humor] tag, flyover. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2006-06-06 07:59|| 2006-06-06 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Tighter border controls between the United States and Canada are likely to be less useful than better domestic intelligence and information-sharing in detecting homegrown terrorist plots in North America, terrorism experts said yesterday.

What would we do without experts?
Allow one major successful terrorist attack from either neighbor and you'll see the border close tighter than a sphincter on a flea and border trade drop to nil.

Posted by Uloger Whease2177 2006-06-06 08:56|| 2006-06-06 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Unlikely UW. Our two economies are as tightly linked as they come. Not totally sure on this, but I believe our trade with Ontario alone is greater than our trade with any one country apart from Canada.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-06-06 11:01|| 2006-06-06 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't think many Americans care, CL.

Posted by Rafael 2006-06-06 12:08|| 2006-06-06 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 A quarter mile wide patch of poison ivy for the length of the border would be a pretty good first patch at securing it.

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-06 15:41|| 2006-06-06 15:41|| Front Page Top

#8 And the Great Lakes?

Posted by Rafael 2006-06-06 15:51|| 2006-06-06 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Sharks. Sharks with Lasers.

Posted by ed 2006-06-06 15:56|| 2006-06-06 15:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Rafael: I don't think many Americans care, CL.

Sure we do Rafael,

But first it's just like what flyover said...

You gotta syncronize team Canada with USA football rulz, and Render unto Gitmo the things which are Gitmo's, and unto Ole Sparky the things that are Ole Sparky's.

Posted by RD 2006-06-06 18:12|| 2006-06-06 18:12|| Front Page Top

#11 The football rules I can live with. The cultural sneering at the US combined with flirtation with Sharia .... is more of a concern.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-06 18:29|| 2006-06-06 18:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Sorry Dan, frankly, this article is crap. If you want to secure the Canadian border, you only have to deal with the three ports of entry into Canada: Toronto Airport, Montreal Airport, and Vancouver Airport. There are no other places to get into Canada other than the port of Halifax and cargo ship traffic.

Control three airports, and you control who gets into the country and who reaches the US border. This is so simple a child could figure it out, but we are dealing with politicians.

Posted by john">john 2006-06-06 21:07|| 2006-06-06 21:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Cut a deal with Alberta. Fence the rest of them off. All those imports are Chevys we don't need.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-06 21:23|| 2006-06-06 21:23|| Front Page Top

#14 I assume you don't live near the Canadian border, john. I grew up in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, about 20 minutes drive from Niagara Falls. I seem to recall several bridges crossing over the Niagara River to Canada in our vicinity, plus one could easily sail across Lake Erie, from one marina to another. Further along the border, there are unfenced, unguarded roads that connect small communities on both sides of the border, for the convenience of truckers bringing beer to the bars on the other side, and suchlike activities. I rather imagine that much of the border could be crossed unobserved on foot, without the attendent difficulties of transversing a hostile desert, as at the Mexican border.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-06 22:40|| 2006-06-06 22:40|| Front Page Top

#15 John is talking about getting into Canada in the first place, I believe.

Posted by flyover 2006-06-06 22:45|| 2006-06-06 22:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Unless, of course, you think the jihadis infiltrate Canada from the US. That may, indeed, be a problem, lol.
:)

Posted by flyover 2006-06-06 22:47|| 2006-06-06 22:47|| Front Page Top

#17 On rereading that, clearly you're right, flyover. My apologies, john. Although there does seem to be a problem with back-and-forth flow of bad guys across that border, based on this latest series of arrests around the world. The U.S. is not an uninvolved bystander in Canada's troubles, sadly.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-06 22:53|| 2006-06-06 22:53|| Front Page Top

#18 The cultural sneering at the US combined with flirtation with Sharia .... is more of a concern.

Pffft. You guys have a culture? I mean, besides the gun culture of course. (relaaax, put them back in the holsters, that was just me being silly)

Regarding Sharia...if you meant that literally, it's the Liberals who put an end to that, in Ontario at least.

john: Control three airports, and you control who gets into the country

More airports than that I'm afraid: Gander, Happy-Valley Goose Bay (love that name), Iqaluit, Kuujjuaq. All refueling points for general aviation, coming in from across the pond. Fortunately, not many people take that route. Maybe two in five years.

Posted by Rafael 2006-06-06 23:14|| 2006-06-06 23:14|| Front Page Top

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