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McKenna: Canada needs different treatment




WASHINGTON (CP) - Canada and Mexico shouldn\'t be treated identically when it comes to border issues like requiring passports to enter the United States, Ambassador Frank McKenna told CNN on Tuesday.

\"I don\'t think that we should be trying to do equivalent things on the borders, the issues are just dramatically different,\" he told host Lou Dobbs. \"The Mexican border, the major issue would be immigration . . . You don\'t hear of Canadians trying to get under barbed wire fences to get to the United States.\"

Canada has long argued that needing passports to head south is too onerous. McKenna predicted Monday the U.S. would drop the contentious proposal, citing discussions between officials on both sides of the border.

McKenna has been on a campaign to promote Canadian trade and security issues through the U.S. media.

After listing off the amount of trade between the two countries on CNN, Dobbs allowed: \"We love Canada. We love Canada. You\'ve got me convinced ambassador.\"

McKenna again knocked down the myth that any of the terrorists involved in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, crossed the border from Canada.

\"It hurts us terribly, you know,\" he said. \"We would never want to contribute to in any way to anything that would harm our neighbour.\"

source: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/06/14/1088539-cp.html

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