The Smart Border Declaration was a binational deal signed on December 12, 2001 between the United States and Canada. The aim of the plan was to continually improve border security, information-sharing and law enforcement co-operation between the two nations.
The Smart Border Declaration included a four-part Action Plan. Within a year, the Smart Border Declaration was expanded into a 30 point Action Plan.
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“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”
—Fran Lebowitz (20th century)
“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“[The Declaration of Independence] meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)