Correspondence
Correspondence BORDER INSECURITY CANADIAN READERS of THE WEEKLY STANDARD—and there are many— look to your magazine for fresh and factual analysis. Olivier Guitta’s “The Canadian Peril”...
...Pierce, Fla...
...WOMAN OF LETTERS LAST WEEK, I spent two full hours just trying to convince my college freshman composition students that use of “he or she” to refer to “one” (or “student” or “person” or “individual”) degrades logic and weakens language...
...Since then, Canada has invested many billions of dollars in security and intelligence...
...However, as the Washington Post reported on January 25 (citing DHS), only 20 of those cases were at the Canada-U.S...
...I must also concur with Gelernter’s closing remarks on “brotherhood...
...And we know who is gaining entry to our country (there is negligible illegal immigration to Canada...
...John McCain” (March 3), the author refers to “Time magazine’s Blake Dvorak...
...ROY NORTON Minister, Embassy of Canada Washington, D.C...
...per year...
...citizenship...
...THE WEEKLY STANDARD welcomes letters to the editor...
...authorities control radioactive material as closely as Canadian authorities do...
...Readers can judge for themselves by downloading the full report (www...
...citizens” meant the Canadian border...
...Pakistan...
...Only 210 false claims were made at the Canada-U.S...
...As the press release focused solely on the northern border and nowhere mentioned the border with Mexico, I mistakenly assumed its report of “1,517 cases of individuals falsely claiming to be U.S...
...Tired and not convinced of my success, I pulled THE WEEKLY STANDARD from my mailbox and there found David Gelernter’s genuinely eloquent article (“Feminism and the English Language,” March 3) in which he makes a similar effort...
...A number of senators assumed the same and elicited from the DHS the clarifi - cation quoted by Roy Norton...
...Finally, it’s sad that Guitta so uncritically bought speculations (fostered by a GAO “study”) that someone could cross the border wearing a knapsack full of “radioactive contents...
...Furthermore, every legal immigrant to Canada is security screened before gaining entry...
...I did not chuckle...
...Government Accountability Offi ce (the investigative arm of Congress) report, based on testimony given before the Senate Finance Committee on September 27, 2007...
...Blake Dvorak blogs for Real Clear Politics, which is hosted by Time.com, but is not an employee of Time magazine...
...Later in his article, he identifi es two: Algeria and Morocco...
...Canada, probably more than any U.S...
...He cites Homeland Security to the effect that 1,517 individuals were stopped at “the border” from October to December last year, falsely claiming U.S...
...I’m a sister, but I don’t believe “sisterhood” suffi ces for the fullness of “brotherhood”— never has, never will...
...is greater than immigration to Canada from those fi ve countries, according to 2006 statistics—the most recent year for which data is available...
...Persons have been arrested in both countries and charged with planning attacks...
...But immigration to the U.S...
...border over the past three years (30,850 were made at the U.S.-Mexico border...
...borders at unmanned or unmonitored locations, can likewise be viewed at: www.gao.gov/media/video/gao-07-884t...
...I hope U.S...
...The logical abuses generated as a result of the enslavement of English by feminism, once a matter of humorous aberration, have become another evil of political correctness...
...citizenship (there are approximately 67 million entries from Canada into the U.S...
...Cooperation between law enforcement authorities is exceptional—across the entire 5,500 mile border...
...OLIVIER GUITTA RESPONDS: I quoted the U.S...
...So, at the United States’ northern border 70 persons, on average, are stopped each year making false claims of U.S...
...Iran...
...Thank you David Gelernter...
...No attacks have been perpetrated in either country since 9/11...
...I regret the error...
...border...
...Guitta didn’t “fact check...
...Saudi Arabia...
...I reveled in Gelernter’s references to E.B...
...ally, responded to the events and the threats of 9/11...
...The GAO’s video, simulating the transport of radioactive material and other contraband across northern and southern U.S...
...What countries does he have in mind...
...Customs and Border Protection press release of January 22, 2008, announcing the stepped up controls on the U.S.-Canadian border...
...CLARIFICATION IN STEPHEN F. HAYES’s article “New York Times vs...
...And I don’t fi nd general use of “he” or “him” or “his” confusing or insulting or gender-tainted...
...Olivier Guitta’s “The Canadian Peril” (February 11) falls short on both counts...
...Again, systems seem to be working...
...ELAINE KROMHOUT Ft...
...Guitta states that “immigration to Canada from terror-exporting regions is on the rise...
...White and William Strunk and nodded at his examples of “fi refi ghter” not “fi reman”—never “authoress” but, rather, “author...
...I’m not sure why a reporter should be faulted for conveying the fi ndings of a U.S...
...You may also fax letters: (202) 293-4901 or email: editor@weeklystandard.com...
...My guess is that if Guitta were to try to obtain such material in Canada he’d be writing his next article from behind bars...
...gao.gov/new.items/d07884t.pdf...
...Based on the record, any objective observer would conclude that cooperative systems put in place since 9/11 work well...
Vol. 13 • March 2008 • No. 25
