No fees for Canadians to drive into US
Posted May 10, 2013 10:56 am.
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OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – The federal government is breathing a sigh of relief after a US Senate committee rejected a proposal to collect fees at land border crossings.
Government House Leader Peter Van Loan says he’s pleased the potential fees have been quashed. He says they would have damaged the Canadian and US economies.
The US Department of Homeland Security had wanted Congress to authorize the study of a fee that could be collected from everyone entering the US from Canada and Mexico.
But yesterday, the Senate judiciary committee voted to amend the Immigration Reform Bill to ban such a fee.