MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (WCCO) – Minnesota officials are keeping a close eye on an important dispute to our north as Canadian border agents are preparing to go on strike.

“Our members gave us a mandate to strike,” said Mark Weber, the president of Canada’s Customs and Immigration Union. “They voted 96% in favor.”

Weber says the union is fighting for salaries and rights that most other law enforcement already have.

Minnesota’s leaders aren’t sitting idly by.

“Our administration, the Walz administration, we meet regularly with the Canadian government to talk about this,” said Thom Petersen, Minnesota’s agriculture commissioner.

Petersen says his panic meter about a possible strike at the border is at a six or seven out of 10.

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