Industry minister on Canada-U.S. Nexus dispute: 'Should be an easy one to resolve'

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Canada's clash with the United States over the Nexus trusted-traveller program should be resolved well before the president and prime minister meet in December, Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Friday.

Champagne, who was in Washington, D.C., to meet with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, said he raised the issue with his U.S. counterpart as an example of a situation that would be in the interest of both countries to solve promptly.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to sit down with President Joe Biden when the two leaders meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the so-called Three Amigos summit in Mexico City in December. That's because Customs and Border Protection won't send U.S. agents to staff them unless they get the same measure of legal protection agents currently have at ports of entry like airports and the Canada-U.S. border.

“It is incumbent upon us to make sure that we resolve this issue, as we always do with our American friends, to make sure that the officers get back to their offices so that these Nexus cards can be issued.”

 

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Then why hasn't it be resolved already ?

Hope so I would be more comfortable if it came from the US official.

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