Ottawa to keep records on Canadians' border crossings for the American government

Published in the Globe and Mail, December 2011:
Re: "How Ottawa will track who’s coming, who’s going and where” December 8, 2011, p. A10:

So, Ottawa will keep a record of every time I drive to Oregon to visit my Mom or my plane stops in Texas on the way to a business meeting in South America, but cancelled the long-form census and doesn’t want to know if I own a rifle?


Background: the Conservative government cancelled the mandatory long-form census in 2011, and the long-gun (i.e., rifles and shotguns) registry, a key part of Canada's gun law,in February 2012.