Canada was negotiating a new security and economic deal with the Americans. Rumours that something called a perimeter security arrangement was in the

[link to www.economist.com]

This is just a small snip of this long article. You can bet the NAFTA plans are back on!



So in some ways it was not a surprise when Stephen Harper, the Canada's conservative prime minister, confirmed in one of his year-end interviews that Canada was negotiating a new security and economic deal with the Americans. Rumours that something called a perimeter security arrangement was in the works had been circulating for weeks. One media outlet even got its hands on the communications strategy the government would use to sell the deal to Canadians sceptical of giving away sovereignty in exchange for market access.