{"id":137,"date":"2005-12-03T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T22:39:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"washington_eases_off_contentious_passpor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/03\/washington_eases_off_contentious_passpor\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington eases off contentious passport plan for Canada-U.S. crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my posting about the Great Wolf Lodge open house called Jimmy the hotelier: Believe it or not!<\/a><\/em>, a couple of comments<\/a> were left about how the US wants all people travelling to the US to have a passport. I responded that I didn’t think it would happen. In yesterday’s paper, there was an article in the paper about how the US is backing off this.<\/p>\n

From The StarPhoenix<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The United States government is tempering its heavily criticized plans to require passport checks of Canadians entering the U.S.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working with Canada to develop a new, alternative cross-border identification card that would satisfy security requirements, but would be cheaper and easier to obtain than a passport, a U.S. official said Thursday.<\/p>\n

“An alternative card would be lower in cost and would be easier to carry – it would be wallet sized – for people who don’t want to pay the fee for a passport. That’s something we’re examining now,” said Homeland Security spokesman Jarrod Agen.<\/p>\n

“We’re working on this with the Canadian government. We would administer a card for our citizens, and the Canadian government would work with us to see what they could do (for Canadians).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my posting about the Great Wolf Lodge open house called Jimmy the hotelier: Believe it or not!, a couple of comments were left about how the US wants all people travelling to the US to have a passport. I responded that I didn’t think it would happen. In yesterday’s paper, there was an article…<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-137","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\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}