Border Cooperation…Expanding Alternatives Border crossings are a key component of trade. They serve as essential checkpoints, ensuring the safety and security of people and truck loads entering our countries and driving on our highways. They can also serve as bottlenecks of congestion that slow trade. Learn how we can improve existing border crossings, and provide new alternatives to improve the flow of trade and create new opportunities for our communities.

1. Alberta Motor Transport Association
Borders for Economic Security
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2. Introduction
Dean Paisley,
Director at Large, AMTA
President, Lethbridge Truck Terminals
What does AMTA do?
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3. Introduction
Not-for-profit Association formed to provide a voice
for the highway transportation industry in Alberta
Provides training programs and promotes safety
initiatives that reduce workplace injuries
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4. Introduction
What I want to talk about today
• Infrastructure
• Border
• Regulatory Harmonization
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5. Infrastructure
• Ports to Plains is doing essential work
• Alberta offers similar products: faces similar challenges
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6. Infrastructure
Let’s look at our trade relationship
• Despite recession still world’s largest bilateral trade partnership
• 1/3 of Canada’s GDP depends on trade with US: US share of CDN exports 72.3%
• Canada-US trade supports >7 million US jobs
• Top export market for 39 US states
• Major US supplier of oil (20%), gas, electricity
• Largest purchaser of US agricultural exports
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7. Infrastructure
But there’s a problem
• Trade has been down but for the last few years and while it has
begun picking back up again lately – there is a sense that things
are tenuous.
• There is also concern about what happens when the economy does
pick up – that will only increase congestion at the border
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8. Infrastructure
Low traffic volume is MASKING problems at the border
• The actual problem – the impact of border
congestion on trade and prosperity – seems less
serious than it really is BECAUSE of the problem itself.
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9. Infrastructure
Investment in transportation infrastructure
is an investment in sustainable mutual
growth and prosperity
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10. Infrastructure
About Canadian infrastructure
• Trucking industry’s contribution to GDP is at least twice that of any other mode
• Trucking employs about 400,000 Canadians
• Trucks haul 90% of all consumer products and foodstuffs
• Carry about two-thirds of Canada’s trade (by value) with the United States
If the Canadian federal government wants to facilitate a stronger economy it needs
to make strategic investments in key highway and border crossing infrastructure.
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11. Infrastructure
Cooperation within Canada
Alberta operators have been striving to streamline freight
movement in Western Canada.
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12. Infrastructure
Infrastructure needs to reflect regulation
We need adequate highways for volume – also important
that we have infrastructure that is consistent with regulatory
requirements drivers are expected to meet
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13. Infrastructure
What AMTA wants to see:
Infrastructure Upgrades
• Twinning highway 2 from Beaverlodge to BC border, BC has announced it is
twinning from the AB border to FT. St. John
• Ring road around Medicine Hat on highway 1
• Finish twinning highway 63
• Look at adding a third lane on highway 2 between Calgary-Edmonton Corridor.
• Repair the highway’s frost heaves on the north bound lane from Bezanson to
Grande Prairie Twinning the highway system from Edmonton area to
Fort McMurray
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14. Infrastructure
New Infrastructure
• New rest areas between Calgary and Red Deer (to fit regulations)
• North/South Trade Corridor
• Ring Roads in Edmonton and Calgary
• Northeast Alberta Transportation Corridor (NATC)
• And…
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15. Infrastructure
AMTA supports the construction of a
transportation and economic development
corridor between Mexico and Alberta
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16. Infrastructure
• After 9/11, physical security became a priority for both
our countries
• We have invested extensively in security
• What about economic security?
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17. Borders not Barriers
“Canada and the United States, alone or in partnership cannot
hope to compete with the emerging economies and/or other
trading blocs, unless we have a predictable, reliable and efficient
supply chain; the sheer enormity and overlap of the measures
that have been imposed on cross-border trade over the past
decade has not always been consistent with that imperative,”
~ Canadian Trucking Alliance President and CEO, David Bradley
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18. Borders not Barriers
As a trucking company owner…
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19. Borders not Barriers
• ID card red tape (and cost)
• Irregular loads (cattle, oil-industry equipment)
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20. Borders not Barriers
Wild Horse Crossing on Alberta 41 and Montana 223
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21. Borders not Barriers
When regulations are in sync (PARS, PAPS) – it works
When they aren’t in sync…
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22. Border not Barriers
We need to keep trucks rolling!
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23. Borders not Barriers
• We need physical security AND economic security
• Perimeter barrier is okay – but not between our countries
• What about energy independence (security)?
• Let’s return to risk assessment based policies
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24. Border not Barriers
We need
• Physical Security
• Energy Security
• Food Security
• Economic Security
• American and Canadian JOB Security
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25. Regulatory Harmonization
Perimeter Vision Action Plan
It’s just an agreement to do certain things, it is not a treaty.
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26. Regulatory Harmonization
Perimeter Vision Action Plan
• Addressing threats early
• Trade facilitation, economic growth and job creation
• Integrated cross border law enforcement and
• Critical infrastructure and cyber-security
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27. Regulatory Harmonization
Action plan is on ambitious timeline – expected in 2 years
What we would like to see:
• Improved coordination – not just between agencies on both
sides of the border – but also between agencies on the same
side of each border
• A one-program approach in Canada similar to the Customs-
Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) in order to gain
access to southbound FAST lanes
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28. Regulatory Harmonization
• Canada adopt the same transponder technology as
the United States
• Canada should be prepared to match US
enforcement efforts in terms of certain point-to-
point freight movements in the other country and in
terms of the ability for domestic loads to move in-
transit in either country
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29. In Summary…
Infrastructure
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30. In Summary…
Borders not Barriers
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31. In Summary…
Regulatory Harmonization
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32. Conclusion
Economic security means opening the bottleneck
• Better roads and amenities for drivers
• Better borders
• Better cooperation
• TOTAL security (energy, food, economic, and job)
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