Eves warns heightened security at U.S. border will compromise Ontario’s economy

PRESCOTT, Ont. (Feb. 13, 2003) — Ontario Premier Ernie Eves yesterday called on Ottawa to step up efforts to create a North American security perimeter in order to keep the flow of commercial traffic moving across the Canada-U.S.border.

Eves warned that delays due to heightened security in the event of a war in the Middle East would severely compromise the economy in Ontario.

He said the cumulative impact of new and proposed security measures at the border “threatens to shatter the just-in-time delivery system businesses and industry on both sides of the border, particularly our essential auto industry, depend upon. When trucks sit idle at the border, assembly lines come to a standstill, companies fail to fill orders and lose business.”

Eves made the comments following a meeting with trucking and manufacturing industry representatives in Prescott, a town situated near the U.S. border halfway between Kingston and Cornwall.

Eves said officials in Ottawa need to create “a zone of comfort for our American friends,” noting that “When Americans look north to our shared border, they are more worried about security than economics.”


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