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This is why the launching in July with Chris Simcox of the month-long recruitment effort to attract citizen volunteers on both sides of the border to work cooperatively to secure our borders and strengthen our hand-in-hand relationship with our neighbors on opposite sides of the border is so important in marking a turning point in history.

With Minuteman founder, Chris Simcox coming to Detroit and Windsor in early July to help launch the two-country Michigan/Ontario Minuteman Border Neighborhood Watch project, it is becoming clearer to citizen leaders of Canada and the United States that a piecemeal approach to protecting our border was not going to work. What was truly needed was an expanded comprehensive effort to include all provinces and states along the 4,000-mile border expanse.

Art Roselle, a founding member of AC3 felt it was necessary to show the world and especially the private citizens of Mexico that they too could work to preserve the integrity of their border by using Canada as an example. Roselle said, "Our Canadian neighbors have been very supportive of helping us encourage citizens, and civic organizations of both countries to be more informed and involved to help us protect the brotherhood of nations on the American & Canadian border."

Our Canadian counterparts felt the same and even emphasized, "More importantly," stated Matt Ford, founding member and Canadian Co-Chair of AC3, "We Canadians are committed to working with our American brothers and sisters on common issues and projects. We are honored to do our part to make sure all border crossings between our two countries are safe and legal."

With the emergence of traditional family values as key in determining the course and direction each nation would take in the culture wars being waged in both nations, AC3 formed as a citizens group that would actively promote, influence and strengthen our common moral, political and economic issues. Not enough emphasis has been placed on those mutual ties until now.

With the eruption of national news coverage over the southern border, the key question many residents of the northern Border States and Canadian provinces had to be asking themselves, if a terrorist or a group of illegal aliens were trying to sneak across either of the borders, wouldn't it appear logical that the terrorist would attempt

to negotiate a 4,000-mile border that was largely unprotected? Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has even commented recently about the porous nature of our shared American and Canadian border.

Karen Mastney, a spokeswoman for AC3 said it was commonsense that America would want to work to insure our nation's safety. "With the Minuteman Project forming on the southern border of the United States, we realized that northern border issues are just as important, and the fact that we have the support and participation of Canadian citizens is very exciting to us," remarked Karen Mastney. "It is a 'common ground issue' to us that we watch each other's backs," she concluded.

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