Border rules soon, U.S. says

[CHIMO]

VANCOUVER — The U.S. ambassador to Canada is quashing any hopes Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have had that new border-identification requirements will be delayed.

“No one in my country wants to impede trade and no one wants to impede the wonderful tourism we have between our two countries,” said Wilkins. “But as President Bush has said, there can be no prosperity without security.

Wilkins said the U.S. working relationship with Canada has strengthened in the last year, citing a stream of high-level administration officials who’ve visited the country, most prominently Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s Sept. 11 anniversary visit to Nova Scotia.

“She could have been anywhere in the world on that sacred and sombre day but she chose to be here in Canada,” he said. “I think that fact alone says so much about the importance the United States places on this relationship.”

The depth of the relationship is so seamless “that we can fall prey to escalating minor irritants into major crises,” he said.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1158833711577&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

Ha, ha...

Guess Steve has to do a little more in .....