Border Controls Strangling Windsor


storm over bridge by joojanta

MSNBC reports that the Canadian city of Windsor will get a brief but badly needed boost from across the US border this weekend as the city of Detroit and the Detroit Tigers host part of the World Series. Windsor (pop 300,000) long reaped the benefits of being within a one-hour drive of 4.5 million Americans. But, apart from occasions such as the World Series and the Super Bowl, being on the US's doorstep is no longer the advantage it once was for Canadian border towns.

Kevin Laforet, chief executive of Casino Windsor, which draws three-quarters of its patrons from Michigan and other nearby US states says "The border has been our Achilles heel. It's a little more of a gauntlet to cross these days."
Read US border controls help kill town's economy from MSNBC.



Related Posts

This is program that compares articles on Absolute Michigan. Sometimes the results are a little odd.

This entry was written by farlane and posted on October 18, 2006 at 11:44 am and filed under Articles, Attractions, Detroit Tigers, Michigan, Recreation & Sports, SE. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. farlane
    Posted November 12, 2006 at 2:27 pm | Permalink

    Bordering On Madness by Jack Lessenberry adds something:

    Our economies are virtually inseparable, especially between Michigan and Ontario. Canada has no interest in giving aid or comfort to any of our enemies, and nothing to gain from doing so. Canada is a highly technologically sophisticated modern nation, fully capable of assessing their security needs, and we need to trust them to do so. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t cooperate and share information with each other. We absolutely should. Sometimes we do. There has been excellent cooperation between federal agents and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who have been working together to intercept drug smugglers between British Columbia and Washington State. They do their thing, we do ours, and we keep each other posted on our parallel investigations.

    Yet Washington doesn’t seem to get it, and too often treats Canada as if it were some inferior and unreliable nation from the developing world. This is highly insulting to Canada, and undeserved...

    Why are we doing this to Canada? What does our nation gain from treating our longtime northern neighbors like this? I love traveling to Canada and have to say that this whole border thing appears quite stupid and counter-productive for both nations.

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *
*
*