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.
Famous quotes containing the words smart, border and/or declaration:
“Angel: Even elephants are afraid of me.
Brad: They’re smart animals. Women are poison.
Angel: But it’s a wonderful death.”
—Fredric M. Frank (1911–1977)
“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)
“Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)