"We agreed to work together on consumer protection, we have to identify and stop unsafe goods from entering our countries, especially those designed for our children," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday.

Harper, alongside U.S. President George Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, said the leaders also discussed border security.

"Border security measures will not threaten the bonds of friendship or commerce between the U.S., Mexico and Canada," he said.

Crippling wait-times choked borders immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, costing the North American economy billions of dollars. A new system would improve the flow of goods between borders during a crisis situation.

But Harper and Bush failed to reach a consensus on Arctic sovereignty. The U.S. president wouldn't budge from his position that the Northwest Passage is an international waterway, although his tone was at least conciliatory. Source...