When I was a Bishop’s University student (in the neighbouring Eastern Townships of Quebec) back in the late 1980s, I heard a story of a few students who bought a decent load of relatively cheap booze in Vermont to take back up into Quebec. As they were heading back, they saw a farmer’s field right near the border with no one in sight. One of them figured that they could grab the booze, run over the border on foot from there through the field and avoid paying the duty and taxes. They were able to do this without being immediately caught.
However, about a couple of days later, the cops showed up at their place because the farmer actually did see them running across his field, so he alerted the cops and noted the licence plate of the car they came up to his property in.
So IOW it was all about taxation to the Canadian authorities? No concern about an illegal border crossing?
>>However, about a couple of days later, the cops showed up at their place because the farmer actually did see them running across his field, so he alerted the cops and noted the licence plate of the car they came up to his property in.
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The only correct answer to a cop at the door with that information is “you saw a car with my license plate on it. And?”