I don't disagree with you at all. It was said after 9/11 by the U.S. ambassador to Canada that security trumps trade. I think that was wrong. I think insecurity trumps trade. To the extent to which the Americans feel that we don't take security seriously, they'll fortify their own border against Canada.
I don't think you can unilaterally thin out the border. And that's the trap we're in. That's precisely the problem. That is why we have to redefine the game. As long as the rules of the game are written the way they are now, we end up mirroring what the Americans do, even if it's highly unlikely that al Qaeda is going to land terrorists in Providence, Rhode Island, to attack Chicoutimi. We'll still guard against them. Unless we can redefine the game and look at security more broadly--how we provide for the security of North America with the sort of perimeter concept we were talking about earlier--we're caught in this trap. We continue to pour good money after bad into something that is simply badly designed.