{"id":1023,"date":"2006-09-27T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/09\/27\/us-to-delay-border-plan-delay\/"},"modified":"2006-09-27T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T12:34:02","slug":"us-to-delay-border-plan-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/us-to-delay-border-plan-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to delay border plan delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?467\">National Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Congress took a major step yesterday toward delaying controversial travel rules that will require Canadians to carry a passport or equivalent document when entering the United States across land and maritime borders.<\/p>\n<p>With fears mounting that the rules will cripple cross-border trade and devastate border communities, negotiators from the Senate and House of Representatives cut a deal to postpone the plan by 17 months, from Jan. 1, 2008, until June 1, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The move, still subject to final ratification, marks a potentially significant victory for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Only last week, he warned that the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative was poorly thought out and &#8220;threatens to divide&#8221; Canada and the U.S. just as bilateral relations were on the mend. Ottawa has been pressing U.S. lawmakers to delay the plan or risk billions of dollars in bilateral trade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the National Post: The U.S. Congress took a major step yesterday toward delaying controversial travel rules that will require Canadians to carry a passport or equivalent document when entering the United States across land and maritime borders. With fears mounting that the rules will cripple cross-border trade and devastate border communities, negotiators from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}