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Originally Posted by yoopr
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Originally Posted by JMD
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Pfffffffffffft-Greatest country?? Hardly
Used to be nice to run Canada in the 70-80's-Now it's worse than the States
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LOL Nothing can get that bad
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If Canada wasn't so lax with their immigration policies the border wouldn't be so tight coming in.
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Oh please, the only experience Americans have coming into Canada is from a US/CAN border crossing. The logic is simple, if a guy (supposedly a terrorist) is leaving the US without having blown anything up, it kinda ruins any credible argument that he is a terrorist, so no need to treat him as one. Canada is not a terrorist target so why should we act as if we are one and give Americans and Canadians a hard time when crossing a US/CAN border based on that assumption? It of course does not mean we are blind, quit the opposite, we are conscious of this reality are react accordingly. Furthermore we share 100% of our information with the US. You guys do not reciprocate, and worse you don?t even share information between your own agencies to the point where a know terrorist by one department can be held and released by another department totally unaware of who they have in custody on some unrelated charge. My point will be further illustrated if you just read on.
If you are talking about a non US/CAN border, such as international flights coming into Canada from foreign countries other than the US, then you guys have no experience or idea of what we do. No one should use their experience at a US/CAN border as a basis for concluding how we behave at our other ports of entry which is where the real risk lies. It is a completely different situation there, and we are proficient at our jobs. As I have said before, none of the 9-11 terrorists came through Canada. They were accepted directly from your immigration bureau, and one or two of them with pending visa applications were issued their permanent visas one year after they died on 9-11. I shouldn?t have to tell you how pathetic that is, and I shouldn?t have to say how scary it is for Canada to know it is sitting beside a country targeted by terrorists around the world. I can also assure you that every Canadian is concerned about terrorism as much as or more so that Americans. I was living in California on 9-11 and for a year thereafter. I could see that I was immensely more affected by that event than all of the Americans around me.