IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 357 
Reaffirming the strategic partnership between the United States and Canada, 
recognizing bilateral cooperation that advances United States national 
interests, and urging increased bilateral cooperation on security, economic 
issues, and energy, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 25, 2017 
Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. CRAMER, and 
Mr. HUIZENGA) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Reaffirming the strategic partnership between the United 
States and Canada, recognizing bilateral cooperation that 
advances United States national interests, and urging 
increased bilateral cooperation on security, economic 
issues, and energy, and for other purposes. 
Whereas history, proximity, commerce, security, and shared 
democratic values underpin a close relationship between 
the United States and Canada; 
Whereas this year marks 150 years of the Canadian Confed-
eration; 
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Whereas Americans and Canadians have the longest inter-
national border and one of the largest commercial rela-
tionships in the world, with $1.7 billion of trade and 
nearly 400,000 people crossing the shared border daily; 
Whereas Canada is the United States largest trading partner, 
and a majority of States of the United States also con-
sider Canada their top export destination, with 15 States 
counting Canada as their top point of origin for imports; 
Whereas the United States and Canada cooperate extensively 
within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 
United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), and 
North 
American 
Aerospace 
Defense 
Command 
(NORAD); 
Whereas Canada has been a critical ally of the United States 
in the global war on terror, deploying approximately 
2,800 Canadian troops in the NATO-led International 
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan from 
2006–2011, the fifth-largest national contingent in the 
ISAF; 
Whereas 158 Canadian Armed Forces personnel bravely gave 
their lives while participating in the ISAF in Afghani-
stan; 
Whereas Canada has 830 Canadian Armed Forces personnel 
currently serving in the Middle East in support of the 
United States-led coalition to counter the Islamic State; 
Whereas longstanding bilateral border security cooperation 
between the United States and Canada protects vital 
United States security interests while promoting trade 
and travel; 
Whereas the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Beyond 
the Border Initiative, United States-Canada NEXUS 
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Trusted Traveler Program, Border Enforcement Security 
Taskforces (BEST), Shiprider Integrated Cross Border 
Maritime Law Enforcement program, Cross Border 
Crime Forum, Integrated Border Enforcement Teams, 
and United States preclearance operations conducted at 
eight Canadian airports enhance United States-Canadian 
border security efforts; 
Whereas Canada is the world’s fifth-largest petroleum pro-
ducer in the world and is the United States largest for-
eign supplier of energy, including oil, uranium, natural 
gas, and electricity; 
Whereas Canada is the largest source of imported oil for 
United States refineries and while the United States pro-
duces 90 percent of the natural gas it uses, of the re-
maining natural gas that the United States imports, 97 
percent comes from Canada; 
Whereas Canada is a net exporter of electricity to the United 
States, with more than 30 active electricity transmission 
connectors between the two countries; 
Whereas Canada is a strategic leader in international affairs, 
a member of the G7 and G20, and an important voice 
for democratic principles, market-oriented policies, and 
human rights in the United Nations, Organization for 
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and 
Organization of American States; and 
Whereas, on February 13, 2017, President Donald Trump 
and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada held their 
first official meeting and reaffirmed the importance of 
the United States-Canadian relationship: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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