Canada Never Again

dennisgt60 wrote:
This thread is very educational as my wife and I look forward to visiting Canada upon our retirement next year. It's been 30 plus years since our last brief visit there and crossing back then was a breeze. The world has changed a great deal since then and we understand the reasons to be much better prepared and knowledgable with respect to laws/rules. Thanks to all for the education and we look forward to seeing Canada.

Now there's the correct atittude.

rife throughout the O/P's post is the assumption he would be simply allowed to breez through without any complications while not taking the time to educate himself about this changed world we live in now.

I wonder how he would have liked having his rig torn apart by two agents while a National Guardsman stood there facing us with his rifle at port arms between us and our rig just days after 9/11? I wonder if he forgets the reason why all of these rules and regs have come to be universally applied through database sharing.

To remind him: they came to be because they were insisted upon by the government of the U.S. after the terrible event of that day. Canada was accused of being lax in our border control. A couple of high profile political figures (McCain for one) stating (immediately proven wrong but nevertheless without any apology) that those terrorists entered via Canada.

Now here is the kicker for this fellow; had he indeed simply got waved through the Canadian entry point, who'se willing to bet his passage through the U.S. one on into Alaska or upon his return to the U.S. with his convicted friend in tow might have given him a real load of hurt to whine about.

In short he took it for granted as a U.S. citizen he could simply drive across without any research or possibility of complication with a person who had a previous conviction without the deemed rehab'd certificate, a bunch of drugs not belonging to anyone in the vehicle AND a "prohibited weapon".

ANY ONE of those would see me barred for life from ever gaining access to the U.S. EVER again unless and until I had expended a considerable amount of money to have an adjudication made on my behalf and I own property down there.

Border crossings EITHER way, along with Mexcio, are essentially a******shoot at the whim of the high school drop out's mood of the morning.

In summation: if this happenstance, that is experienced daily by Canadians crossing into the U.S., leads you to deny yourself the travelling pleasure of touring Canada it will be your loss alone.