The Canadian Press
Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 5:33 p.m. EDT
Last updated Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 5:33 p.m. EDT
The Business Council of Canada says it is concerned about the continued shutdown of the Nexus Trusted Traveler program.
Business Council of Canada CEO Goldy Hyder says it’s ‘deeply disturbing’ the US government hasn’t reopened 13 Nexus enrollment centers, in a letter to David Cohen, the US ambassador to Canada , obtained by The Canadian Press.
The two countries are at odds over a long-standing demand by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection that its officers have the same legal protections inside Nexus facilities in Canada that they currently have at points. entry points such as airports and the Canada-US border. .
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino cited the principles of Canadian sovereignty when explaining why US customs officers cannot enjoy the same legal protections at Nexus centers as at airports and at the border.
Hyder says in her letter to Cohen that she fears the dispute could harm businesses whose employees do not yet have Nexus cards and she urges the ambassador to recommend the reopening of enrollment centers.
Canada’s envoy to the United States, Kristen Hillman, said last week that the trusted traveler program was “held hostage” by unilateral US efforts to renegotiate the 20-year-old preclearance agreement between the states. States and its neighbor to the north.
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