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chasfm11 wrote:

Excaliber wrote: Canada's government is clearly more interested in messaging than justice.

A few years ago, I traveled fairly extensively in Europe and Canada on business. I was in Italy, France, The Netherlands and Denmark on a regular basis, passing among several of those countries on any given trip. The worst experience that I ever had was flying in to Toronto. After a protracted and increasing heated debate with the Canadian customs agent about the purpose of my business trip to Canada, I told her to make a decision and let me in or to deport me. I was done talking to her. At the slightest hint that a US citizen is coming to Canada to work in a "protected" area, there is a high level of scrutiny applied. The trigger was that my business card said that I was a project manager (true) and that was how I answered the original agent's question when asked. They apparently want to sent a message to US businesses.

I, too, was quizzed if I "owned firearms" when we crossed the Canadian border. My reply was yes but that we have left them back in Texas because I understood Canadian firearms law. We were in an RV and they could have really made it miserable for us by searching it to verify my statement. She waved us through. I'm sure that our Texas license plate was the catalyst for the discussion.