Two years ago we had to go to Canada on business. At the border they treated us like criminals.
My wife and I always take a can of pepper spray with us. It protects against dangerous dogs and certain animals. I have squirted charging pit bulls in the face and instantly turned them away.
We like to walk in the outdoors. People have been attacked by coyotes, cougars, etc., and the spray is a good deterrent.
But the Canadian border nazis siezed my pepper spray, searched my car and made us wait for over two hours to get in to their pathetic country.
Business or not, I'll never go into Canada again.
Two years ago we had to go to Canada on business. At the border they treated us like criminals.
Actually I am glad that they are so strict. They do not have near the illegals that we do. We are WAY to easy at the border. I know it probably sucks being treated like a criminal, but at least they are going to continue having their country unlike us.
When the kids were younger, we went to Epcot and, unfortunately, into the Canadian pavilion.
I think I still have PTSD from the experience. What a joke.
On our first crossing into Canada in 2012, the young border guard asked if we had any weapons, fruits or vegetables. I held up a bag containing four apples. He admonished us, “Don’t bring them next time!” & waved us through. That was all.
Crossing back into the U.S. we handed our passports to the border police. He scanned them & immediately told us to pull into the holding area to have our vehicle searched while we had to fill out a customs declaration. It took an hour & a half and when they returned our passports assured us that this was a random one in three hundred vehicles search.
My wife & I are retired military & we each have been deployed. That makes us potential terrorists under the current regime. I don’t think that search was random, JMHO.