What's more important, that it is real, or that it is perceived to be real?
What's more important, that it is real, or that it is perceived to be real?
I think the only things that will make anyone really look more closely at this and possibly change it, if it is happening, are serious economic consequences for US communities along the border that rely heavily on Canadian visits and money, or if Canada decides to have the CBSA do the same to Americans.
Realistically, I doubt the CBSA would be authorized to do anything retaliatory unless there was absolute, incontrovertible evidence of a problem and the US refused to deal with it through political and diplomatic channels.
So that leaves US businesses and communities suffering economic damages. It would take a significant drop in shopping and tourism for that to happen, and then those local areas would have to get their local politicians to complain all the way up to federal ones.
Basically, even if it is not just perception, I doubt the US government would care.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521920595/canadians-report-more-scrutiny-and-rejection-at-u-s-border-checkpoints?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170329
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521920595/canadians-report-more-scrutiny-and-rejection-at-u-s-border-checkpoints?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170329
I think the only things that will make anyone really look more closely at this and possibly change it, if it is happening, are serious economic consequences for US communities along the border that rely heavily on Canadian visits and money, or if Canada decides to have the CBSA do the same to Americans.
Realistically, I doubt the CBSA would be authorized to do anything retaliatory unless there was absolute, incontrovertible evidence of a problem and the US refused to deal with it through political and diplomatic channels.
So that leaves US businesses and communities suffering economic damages. It would take a significant drop in shopping and tourism for that to happen, and then those local areas would have to get their local politicians to complain all the way up to federal ones.
Basically, even if it is not just perception, I doubt the US government would care.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521920595/canadians-report-more-scrutiny-and-rejection-at-u-s-border-checkpoints?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170329
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521920595/canadians-report-more-scrutiny-and-rejection-at-u-s-border-checkpoints?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170329
I think the GOP leadership will care about the financial impact on the country as much as the GOP leadership of Kansas cared about the financial impact of their tax policy or the GOP leadership of North Carolina cared about the financial impact of HB2.
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