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Anybody do Canada/USA car border crossings lately? What can be expected? | |
| wisc_natureboy Offer Upgrade  User ID: 33824070  United States08/11/2013 10:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 757374  Canada08/11/2013 10:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live an hour from Buffalo and I won tickets for an attraction there. I would have liked to go, but the tickets would expire before I could get a passport so I gave them away. It sucks that we have to get passports now for a day trip. |
| Iamaka Canadian User ID: 12542783 Canada08/11/2013 10:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In my experience, the CBSA Canadian border guards tend to give people a harder time than the Americans. Just be ready to give honest answers, and have a reason to be crossing the border, where you will be staying, and when you will be returning. Act nervous or show any attitude, and expect the white glove. |
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| wisc_natureboy (OP) User ID: 33824070 United States08/11/2013 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live an hour from Buffalo and I won tickets for an attraction there. I would have liked to go, but the tickets would expire before I could get a passport so I gave them away. It sucks that we have to get passports now for a day trip. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757374 Yeah, inhibiting travel seems to be part of their agenda. I have a valid passport and will be traveling with my dog and I have his rabies cert. I just don't want him to get shot. He hates uniforms and is big and scary. We all breathe the same air. .-.. --- ...- . / .- .-.. .-.. |
| clapon User ID: 18120441 United States08/11/2013 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I haven't done a car-border crossing since 2004, and it was cake. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Are the Canadian border guards now Nazi's like ours are? going in is ok ,but coming back, well it might take a little longer. someone i know just came back from fishing in Canada and said they ask alot of questions funny thing happened the other day... disclaimer. all statements are to be construed as questions.end oh yeah ... your fired...end |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27731189 United States08/11/2013 10:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I haven't done a car-border crossing since 2004, and it was cake. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Are the Canadian border guards now Nazi's like ours are? going in is ok ,but coming back, well it might take a little longer. someone i know just came back from fishing in Canada and said they ask alot of questions both sides do and sometimes both sides hardly ask anything I cross at least 50 time per year for the past 10 years. |
| wisc_natureboy (OP) User ID: 33824070 United States08/11/2013 10:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I haven't done a car-border crossing since 2004, and it was cake. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Are the Canadian border guards now Nazi's like ours are? going in is ok ,but coming back, well it might take a little longer. someone i know just came back from fishing in Canada and said they ask alot of questions both sides do and sometimes both sides hardly ask anything I cross at least 50 time per year for the past 10 years. Is a compound bow or bowie knives things I need to tell them about? We all breathe the same air. .-.. --- ...- . / .- .-.. .-.. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26089112 United States08/11/2013 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Thee Bob User ID: 1991347 Canada08/11/2013 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You're likely in for a dicking. Just like Jim Cornette got, Canada is becoming Austria 1938 (No different that America) In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act - George Orwell Rachel Maddow is HOT!!! - Seriously I'd hit it. A VOTE FOR JUSTIN TRUDEAU IN 2015, WOULD BE THE MOST COWARDLY & IRRESPONSIBLE THING A CANADIAN CITIZEN COULD DO TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE. GUN GRABBERS ARE THE COMMON ENEMY OF ALL PEOPLE. GUN CONTROL HAS RESULTED IN THE SLAUGHTER OF 262 MILLION CITIZENS BY THEIR GOVERNMENTS OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS. THE LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA & THE NDP ENDORSE GUN CONTROL, AN ESSENTIAL POLICY OF HITLER, STALIN, MAO, POL POT, EDI AMIN, QADDAFI, SADDAM, ASSAD, & EVERY OTHER TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT THIS PAST CENTURY. CANADIANS MUST NEVER FORGET THE BETRAYAL OF BILLS C-68 & C-17. WE MUST NOT REST UNTIL THEY ARE FULLY REPEALED. C-19 WAS A GOOD START......BUT JUST A START. GET OFF YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES AND MAKE AN IMPACT. WE HAVE 26 MONTHS. I, THEE BOB, SWEAR ON THE ALTER OF GOD TO FIGHT ALL FORMS OF CANADIAN TYRANNY AND SAVE MY COUNTRY FROM THE EVILS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER. I WILL NEVER HAND IN MY GUNS. EVER. I AM A FREE MAN, I WILL NOT BE THE BITCH OF THE SOCIALIST ESTABLISHMENT. LEAVE ME ALONE. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 42763347 United States08/11/2013 11:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have not found it difficult , but have known others recently who found it a little grilling . One car actually got pulled aside for a vehicle search by US border agents . Don't lie about anything because they can smell a lie . Its a shame that it is like this now . The friendly open border of the recent past I miss . |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 31194169 Canada08/11/2013 11:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have not found it difficult , but have known others recently who found it a little grilling . One car actually got pulled aside for a vehicle search by US border agents . Quoting: gatherhope Don't lie about anything because they can smell a lie . They work on your fear of them and what they represent. Most people live in fear of cops & authority. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 44973199 Canada08/11/2013 11:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8361466 United States08/11/2013 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I cross regularly Canadian guards are FAR better than the American ones. But, the trend is now for them to get just as dickish as the Americans. They are getting more militarized by the day it seems. Canada is about 10 years behind the police state we have in the USA. |
| furPete'sSake User ID: 44608660 United States08/12/2013 12:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just did twice in June, they were very nice. Just have your passport ready, answer only what they ask, don't volunteer anything "It's a friendly friendly world" (Andy Kaufman) Calm seas do not a sailor make, Nor easy horses, a horseman. And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower and when He could be certain only drowning men could see Him- Leonard Cohen |
| furPete'sSake User ID: 44608660 United States08/12/2013 12:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live an hour from Buffalo and I won tickets for an attraction there. I would have liked to go, but the tickets would expire before I could get a passport so I gave them away. It sucks that we have to get passports now for a day trip. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757374 Yeah, inhibiting travel seems to be part of their agenda. I have a valid passport and will be traveling with my dog and I have his rabies cert. I just don't want him to get shot. He hates uniforms and is big and scary. should be fine, I have taken my dogs in and out, never any trouble "It's a friendly friendly world" (Andy Kaufman) Calm seas do not a sailor make, Nor easy horses, a horseman. And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower and when He could be certain only drowning men could see Him- Leonard Cohen |
| wisc_natureboy (OP) User ID: 33824070 United States08/12/2013 12:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live an hour from Buffalo and I won tickets for an attraction there. I would have liked to go, but the tickets would expire before I could get a passport so I gave them away. It sucks that we have to get passports now for a day trip. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757374 Yeah, inhibiting travel seems to be part of their agenda. I have a valid passport and will be traveling with my dog and I have his rabies cert. I just don't want him to get shot. He hates uniforms and is big and scary. should be fine, I have taken my dogs in and out, never any trouble Thanks, and thanks for your advice not to volunteer info. I tend to be a bit gregarious. LoL. We all breathe the same air. .-.. --- ...- . / .- .-.. .-.. |
| Keneh User ID: 2482665 United States08/12/2013 12:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24929946 United States08/12/2013 12:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just this week talked to a guy that this happened to as well. So if you have any kind of record for anything at all, you may get hassled. Aside from that; you need your passport, they will scan it and look up your record while you sit and pose for the photos being taken of your car, they will ask you what your business is there, and perhaps conduct a search of your vehicle. On the way out the USA will ask what you bought and you may have to show them. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 17965061 Canada08/12/2013 12:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| furPete'sSake User ID: 44608660 United States08/12/2013 12:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live an hour from Buffalo and I won tickets for an attraction there. I would have liked to go, but the tickets would expire before I could get a passport so I gave them away. It sucks that we have to get passports now for a day trip. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 757374 Yeah, inhibiting travel seems to be part of their agenda. I have a valid passport and will be traveling with my dog and I have his rabies cert. I just don't want him to get shot. He hates uniforms and is big and scary. should be fine, I have taken my dogs in and out, never any trouble Thanks, and thanks for your advice not to volunteer info. I tend to be a bit gregarious. LoL. yes, no telling what you might innocently say will cause them to look more closely at you. As your car is in line, they have cameras recording and checking your license plate, so they know more about you than you think by the time you get to the window. I've always suspected they have listening devices too, and are watching to see if you look at all nervous. Not that 99 per cent of us have any reason to. I did notice a small drone overhead this time that I had never seen the likes of before "It's a friendly friendly world" (Andy Kaufman) Calm seas do not a sailor make, Nor easy horses, a horseman. And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower and when He could be certain only drowning men could see Him- Leonard Cohen |
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| MtBarb User ID: 29714721 United States08/20/2013 01:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I haven't done a car-border crossing since 2004, and it was cake. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Are the Canadian border guards now Nazi's like ours are? We crossed from MT to BC both ways last week. No problems at all, whisked right through once we got to the head of a LONG LONG line (it was Sunday.) Both US and CAN agents very friendly. MtBarb |
