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‚Äôt 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.