“The last time I went to Canada, I stopped at an A&W. The prices in Canada were quite a bit higher than in the USA.”
yes, but one canadian dollar is worth about 22 percent less than our dollar. might that explain the difference in the prices you saw?
now, if the canadian police officer was buying American cheese with canadian money, wouldn’t it cost him more canadian dollars to buy cheese in the states?
i guess it’s still cheaper to buy stateside to avoid the 270% tariff that canada imposes on American dairy products that makes it a desirable item to smuggle, if you can get away with smuggling it across the border?
so if he went to the states to buy a pizza and took it across the border to canada to eat, would he have to declare it at customs and pay 270% of the original purchase price?
lastly, is American cheese far superior to canadian cheese that a person would find it something they would want to try to smuggle?
No - the US dollar had greater purchasing power, even accounting for the exchange rate.
I had gone to a conference and they had some fruit there - I took an orange for the road. I forgot I had it in the back seat. US Customs questioned us at the border (we had to get out of the car) and I neglected to declare it, but I didn’t get in trouble. As I understand it, US Customs could have seized it.
I haven’t tried going the other way (into Canadian customs)
Thanks to Junior Trudeau...Canada is not Canada anymore. Last time I was there...1966...we camped in a gorgeous park on the Lac du Sables. The clean fresh air...the ice cold lake water...the companionable other campers...the Boulanger coming thru every morning with hot French bread and exquisite Napoleons! So sad that it is gone forever.