(Robert M. Gary) wrote in message

BTW: When I got back from Canada yesterday the customs guy at Friday
was talking about how crazy the boarder is in Canada right now. He
said its unbelievable how easy it is for crazies to get resident
permits to live in Canada. He said the U.S. is 10 times more worried
about the type of people coming in from Canada than Mexico. Mexico is
actually a bit of work to get resident Visas, he said Canada takes
anyone, regardless of their terrorist history. He also said the U.S.
has offered to train the Canadian boarder patrol but they did not
accept.

-Robert

We just moved from the US to Canada last week and I can tell you first
hand that the Canadian border is essentially unsecure and unprotected.
We had a 25 foot Penske truck - did the look inside? No. Also a 14
foot enclosed cargo trailer - did they look inside? No. But they sure
got excited about a John Deere tractor that we had listed as
inventory, until they determined its value was under $10,000 CDN. (if
it was more than than 10K they would collect some tax). In my
experience Canada Customs/Immigration is focused entirely on revenue
collection (taxation) first, with security being a distant second.
The US has a right to be concerned.

Richard