Yes, I can.
Fundamentally, what it comes down to is providing an accessible means of legally crossing the border. As long as that can be done, the appeal of crossing the border illegally will be dramatically diminished. Doing so by incorporating, let's say, metric scans or other security measures but doing that in ways that aren't deemed to be too intrusive will, as I said, encourage such legal border crossings.
To be honest, I've flown across Canada many times. I grew up in northern Minnesota and spent quite a bit of time in Winnipeg and crossed the border many times. Frankly, there's no reason that this information, when I cross the border, can't and shouldn't be available to both my government, the U.S. government, and yours.