From: "Dave Ings" 

I was going to say ... nothing new about this except that for a change it's
an American citizen getting the short end of the bureacracy stick.

Way back in the 80s I had a 20-something friend who was turned away at the
US border because unbeknownst to him one of the four people in the car he
was in had a teenage break and enter arrest. It took my friend a couple of
years to get his US immigration status cleared, which put a crimp in his
professional life.
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.togv0ck8m6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
We've had that for quite some time (Swift simply being an example, Echelon
being another).

Until recently, nobody was putting a lot of effort into the low-grade stuff
(pot, etc.).  It's only with Harper's implementation of Bush doctrines that
the stupidity is made manifest.  For years, the Canadian border service
have wanted to be armed.  Previous Canadian governments said no
("we'll look into this"); Harper signed off straight away on the
implementation and training plan.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:51:55 -0500, Ad
 wrote:

> John Beamish wrote:
>> Yeah, saw that.  This is all part of the Bush government franchise in
>> Ottawa (Stephen Harper's Conservatives).  In any analysis of total
>> unmitigated dumbness, this incident stands as a shining example of
>> over-reaching government stupidity.
>>
>
>
> Nah it's much more than that. It's about the "internationalization of
> person information".
>
> Adam
>
>> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:17:41 -0500, Ad
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/23/NEVIUS.TMP
>>>
>>> "There was a time not long ago when a trip across the
border from the
>>> United States to Canada was accomplished with a wink and a wave of a
>>> driver's license. Those days are over.
>>>
>
>

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