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The Nexus trusted-traveller program is being “held hostage” by unilateral American efforts to renegotiate the 20-year-old preclearance agreement between the United States and its northern neighbour, Canada's envoy to the U.S. said Thursday.
Yesterday (Oct. 13), Kirsten Hillman, a lawyer and Canadian ambassador to the United States, said the Nexus trusted-traveller program is being "held hostage" by American efforts to renegotiate its 20-year-old pre-clearance agreement, laying the blame on U.S. tactics. Canada's 13 Nexus enrolment centres have been closed since March of 2020.
The Nexus trusted-traveller program is being “held hostage” by unilateral American efforts to renegotiate the 20-year-old preclearance agreement between the United States and its northern neighbour, Canada’s envoy to the U.S. said Thursday.
A new Canada-U.S. dispute has been quietly simmering for months, and boiled over on a public stage Thursday. Canada's ambassador says the U.S. is holding a trusted-traveller program 'hostage' as part of an ongoing disagreement, and she unloaded on the move at a Washington event.
The Nexus trusted-traveller program is being “held hostage” by unilateral American efforts to renegotiate the 20-year-old preclearance agreement between the United States and its northern neighbour, Canada’s envoy to the U.S. said Thursday.