US/Canadian Border to be Abolished

March 10, 2011

Hon. John Boehner
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
H-232 The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Mr. Speaker:

I strongly encourage you to have the appropriate House committees hold hearings to investigate the weakening of security along the Canadian border, as described by President Obama and Prime Minister Harper in their February 4 news conference.

The President's decision to move toward a "North American Perimeter", with less demanding security along the U.S.-Canadian border, raises serious questions which should be investigated and debated by Congress.

Will this new perimeter provide protection equal to what Americans now enjoy? Would it have been sufficient to catch the terrorist who successfully entered Canada and then attempted to cross the border into the U.S. in 1999 with the intention of killing Americans as they celebrated the arrival of the year 2000?

Does this new perimeter reduce American independence, surrendering to Canada the Federal government's Constitutional responsibility to protect the American people? Will it pave the way for a future North American Union, merging the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a superstate modeled on the European Union?

I hope that the House will exercise its oversight responsibility on this important matter.

Sincerely,

Howard Phillips

Chairman