[Candor7]

The Canadian Border patrol has very wide powers of search, seizure and arrest.

They DO NOT need to have probable cause.

They don’t like the kind of sunglasses you wear? They can tear your vehicle apart piece by piece and make you pay to have it put back together.

And they do not even need to justify tearing your car apart by finding anything.

Always cooperate. If you need an attorney at any point, call one and say nothing.

You were likely simply randomly searched. They do that to every nukbered cout of vehicles , decided before hand.

Best time to cross is when they are very busy.Open all your windows weather permitting so they can see inside, Take off yout gat an sunglasses so they can ID you, and “sir” or “mam” them, looking them straight in the eye when you answer questions. That wll get you by most of the time.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes,I understand all that.At any international border...including our northern border...you basically have no rights.And as for cooperating...of all the times I've crossed an international border (perhaps 100 times) I've been less that cooperative only once.That was when I flew to South Africa to see my girlfriend...during apartheid...and encountered an Afrikaner immigration official that copped an attitude with me and I copped one back. He let me in...but only after I did a quick attitude adjustment fearing that he was about to deny me entry.

The only reason that my encounter at the Canadian border sticks in my mind is why they even *wanted* to tear my car apart and why they even *wanted* to ask me dozens of questions about guns and why they even *wanted* to demand the password to my laptop.I fully understood that I was subject to Canadian law and I had no reason to believe that they were violating Canadian law.

Yes,I might have been stopped randomly...every 50th car,perhaps...or someone with my name might have been on a watch list.