(Today’s Trucking)
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) sounded a little world-weary
in its response to the announcement that Canadian and U.S.
government officials have pledged to improve cooperation and coordination at
the border. In an editorial posted on its web site, CTA says it takes the news “with a
well-earned and healthy degree of skepticism” since previous efforts to
streamline the border have ended in few positive results.
“We have been promised a better balance between security and trade facilitation
a number of times over the past decade, only to be disappointed by the results,”
the editorial states. “We sincerely hope the outcome will be different this
time and are prepared to work with the Government of Canada to ensure this is
the case.”
CTA points out that trucking, more than any other industry has been greatly
impacted by border delays in the “security-trumps-trade post-9/11 world.” So
the alliance says it welcomes the news from U.S. President Barack Obama and
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the two countries will attempt once
again to fix border problems. Read more here.
