Fences?

[GoreBag]

I came downstairs today, stumbling in my half-asleep haze, trying to find the milk and cereal, when I stumbled on the local newspaper. Front page story: The US wants to put up fences along the Canadian border.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

[solypsist]

Canada? no, but i did see: "The House of Representatives voted to build a wall along the US border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration." ... "The US-Mexico border is 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) long."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051216...o_051216073139

[Redleg]

These sites might help the discussion.

Don't know about any active project to build a fence along the Canadian Border (as of yet anyway - but will look for some information.)

http://www.ailf.org/ipc/policy_repor...ginfailure.asp

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.p...51121071441235

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...1/132040.shtml

[Samurai Waki]

Welcome to Fortress America.

[Byzantine Prince]

It might be to stop drug traficking from Canada into the US, however I fail to see how you could build a fence big enough to stop that across the entire parallel. That would cost an insane amount of money and it would destroy relations between the two countries.

[GoreBag]

That would cost an insane amount of money and it would destroy relations between the two countries.

Yeah, that's basically what the subtitle of the article said.

Edit to include an online version of the article.

[Samurai Waki]

When was the last time America ever cared about it's relations?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Add machine guns and minefields to this and it would be a good idea.