Quelques déclarations de la Secrétaire à la sécurité nationale Janet Napolitano. Il n'est guère étonnant d'entendre des questions de la part de sénateurs rattachés à des états qui partagent la frontière avec le Canada. Quand on connaît toute l'importance des échanges commerciaux entre les deux pays...
"More early inspection of cargo heading to the United States through northern border crossings will be a feature of the new continental security deal, says the U.S. homeland security secretary.
Janet Napolitano told the U.S. Senate judiciary committee this week the Canada-U.S. perimeter security pact would help ease congestion by pre-screening trucks on the Canadian side of the border at the Peace Bridge and other major crossings.
"We really are very interested in how we can expedite the free flow of goods on both borders, northern and southern, and looking at ways where we can do pre-inspections, if not actual pre-clearance, on the Canadian side," she added.
Napolitano was responding to questions from U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, who has been among those pushing for measures to unclog traffic at the Peace Bridge linking Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Erie, Ont.
The Peace Bridge and the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge across the Niagara River — respectively the third- and fourth-busiest commercial crossings in the U.S. — handle $30 billion in commerce between the two countries, Schumer noted.
"But my office has been fielding lots of complaints from business leaders, average citizens, about the time it takes for commercial traffic to enter the U.S. from Canada," he told Napolitano.
"There's plenty of space on the Canadian side. If we could do the inspections on the Canadian side, which everybody wants, it would be good.""
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