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OTTAWA - Canada will gain enhanced powers to track unemployment insurance recipients who skip the country and landed immigrants who don't spend enough time here to meet residency requirements under the new perimeter security deal with the United States.
The increased muscle will come with a $1-billion price tag, says a former Canadian diplomat who has spoken to negotiators of the Beyond the Border deal that is to be announced on Wednesday when Prime Minister Stephen Harper travels to the White House.
A new entry-exit system for people crossing the 49th parallel by land will be a key feature of the deal, and will represent a landmark change for Canada, Colin Robertson, an ex-diplomat who has served in Washington, said in an interview Sunday.
The federal government doesn't keep track of who actually leaves Canada. But the U.S. has been pressing Ottawa for years to start collecting that data as an added security measure.
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The measure would address concerns that some migrants are abusing Canada’s hospitality by not staying here the required two full years in a five-year period to keep their permanent resident status.
"Now we'll be able to track that," said Robertson, along with Canadians collecting EI while living in the U.S.
"If you're supposed to be a resident of the country and you've gone down to Florida for six months, we're going to have that information now."
