The border between Canada and the United States is an uncertain line. It divides and differentiates the two countries, but sometimes it connects and integrates them.
For months, the border has been under intense scrutiny, thanks, in part, to TransCanada’s ongoing Keystone XL pipeline imbroglio.
Another border dynamic now cuts through the middle of Canadian-American relations.
Today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Washington, D.C. for a meeting with President Barack Obama, at which it is expected the two leaders will announce details of the Beyond the Border trade and security deal, first discussed last February.
The timing of the meeting is historic.
It comes 100 years after another border arrangement, the 1911 reciprocity agreement between the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William Howard Taft's Republican administration. Read more here.
