For the DUP, Gregory Campbell said it was "patently absurd to create artificialbarriers that would impact on the lives in people on either side of the border".
Across the world, we have seen the power of the ballot box and the desire of people to break through artificialbarriers and work to implement solutions to common challenges.
In 2002 the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) installed a series of electric barriers 37 miles downriver in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, an artificial channel that links the lakes with the Mississippi and its tributaries.