ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a descriptive model of what researchers’ research suggests are distinctive, ideal-typical features of the institutional and ideological responses of key governmental and police agencies in Canada to trans-border trading in guns, cigarettes and alcohol, drugs and people. The descriptive model has certain formal qualities which might encourage its application in analyses of the responses of national police, customs and immigration agencies working within other transnational economic unions, like the European Community or the South East Asian Free Trade Area, and they offer it on that basis. The chapter aims to identify four discrete features of the organization of border-control and border-surveillance in Canada. These are: the identification of risk; global tendencies in border regulation; the specificity of the North American Free Trade Agreement; and the Stubborn Play of Canadianicity at the Border.
