Stephen Kinsella: A 'nearly frictionless' border is Brexiteer fiction
Crossing the ‘soft’ US/Canada border takes ten to 30 minutes. A frictionless border is the result of magical thinking by Brexiteers
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met a border last week during his visit to Canada. The border was lovely. Efficient, very friendly Canadian staff, high technology usage everywhere. Fewer than 2,000 staff guard thousands of miles of border between the US and Canada. Yet the Taoiseach stood at a border between two sovereign states. This border has restrictions. The average person can’t drive from the US to Canada without checks. They can’t move goods or ...
