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Wright, written text of remarks, "Canada and the Future of the North American Relationship: The Foreign Policy Context of Continental Security," 20 November 2001, p. 1.
Sands, "The Canadian Policy Response to the United States after September 11, 2001," statement of 27 November 2001.
Clarkson, "Canada’s Position After the Catastrophe of September 11, 2001," University of Toronto, 18 November 2001.
Stairs, Statement to the Committee, 27 November 2001.
An indication of that new discourse and resolve can be found in a major taskforce study, To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign Against Terrorism, which was tabled with the Committee by Christopher Sands at approximately the time it was being released in Washington on 27 November 2001.
Wright, Statement to the Committee, 20 November 2001.
This was also literally underlined in Professor Stairs’ written statement so as to reinforce its highest priority.
Stairs, Statement to the Committee, 27 November 2001.
Rethinking Our Borders: A Plan for Action, p. 26.
F. Abbas Rana, "Cellucci Hails ‘Extraordinary’ Political Efforts," The Hill Times, 19 November, 2001, p.23.
Kurt M. Campbell and Michele A. Flournoy, To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign Against Terrorism, Washington, Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 2001, p.78.
Doran, "Canada-U.S. Relations at the Onset of the 21st Century", Statement to the Committee, 29 November 2001.
Interview in The Hill Times, 19 November, 2001, p.22.
As of the end of November it was not certain who the U.S. lead would be but a likely choice was Richard Falkenrath, the Office’s senior director for policy and plans. He was previously a biological and chemical terrorism expert at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Cooper is the author of "Waiting at the Perimeter: Making US Policy in Canada", in Maureen Molot and Fen Hampson, eds., Canada Among Nations 2000: Vanishing Borders, Oxford University Press, Toronto.
Notably in a June 2001 speech "What’s After NAFTA?" by David Zussman, President of the Public Policy Forum, to an Industry Canada conference in Calgary on North American economic integration, in which he stated: "Given the U.S. preoccupation with national security, the U.S. would undoubtedly require that an element of any ‘perimeter’ discussion would involve changing many of our Canadian laws concerning terrorism, refugees, immigration, drugs, the Charter of Rights, to name a few items".
Dr. Flynn proposed as a priority for G8 adoption, "standards for advancing point of origin controls and enhancing security integrity within our international transport network system". Evidence, 27 November 2001.
Cf. Hon, Lloyd Axworthy, Global Action, Continental Community: Human Security in Canadian Foreign Policy, Address to a Meeting of the Mid-America Committee, Chicago, 9 September 1998.
Professor Pastor, who was a member of President Carter’s National Security Council, is the author of Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New, published by the Washington-based Institute for International Economics on the eve of the Bush-Fox presidential summit in early September 2001.
Clarkson, Canada’s Position after the Catastrophe of September 11, 2001, p. 15.
Sands, Statement to the Committee, 27 November 2001.
Doran, Statement to the Committee, 29 November 2001.