OTTAWA –
The Business Council of Canada says it’s involved over the continued closure of the Nexus trusted-traveller program.
Business Council of Canada CEO Goldy Hyder says it’s `deeply troubling’ that the U.S. authorities has not reopened 13 Nexus enrolment centres, in a letter to David Cohen, the American ambassador to Canada, obtained by The Canadian Press.
The two international locations are in dispute over a long-standing request by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection company that its brokers be afforded the identical authorized protections inside Nexus amenities in Canada that they at present have at ports of entry like airports and the Canada-U.S. border.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has cited the ideas of Canadian sovereignty in explaining why U.S. customs officers cannot have the identical authorized protections on the Nexus centres that they do at airports and the border.
Hyder says in her letter to Cohen she fears the dispute will harm companies whose workers don’t have already got a Nexus card and she or he strongly urges the ambassador to suggest reopening the enrolment centres.
Canada’s envoy to the U.S., Kristen Hillman, mentioned final week the trusted-traveller program is being “held hostage” by unilateral American efforts to renegotiate the 20-year-old preclearance settlement between the United States and its northern neighbour.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Oct. 16, 2022.