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> On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:18:06 -0500, "JJ" <biteme@biteme.com> wrote:
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>><myhome@mts.net> wrote in message
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>>> Why do Canadians require passports to enter the United States and
>>> Americans don't require passport to enter Canada?
>>> Are we as Canadians being profiled by the United States as a risk now?
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>>It is because The United States requires passports (or enhanced id cards)
>>from everyone INCLUDING their own citizens to enter their country.
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>>JJ
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> We as Canadians allow all who pass through our border from the USA, to
> not carry the same passport documentation we must have to pass through
> the USA's border. Hardly seems fair.

It might not seem far, but it is very predictable.

The Canadian government and Customs only is worried about one thing.  Taxes. 
They are not there to protect us, they are there to collect from us.

Case in point: 
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/14/bc-taservideo.html

Being friendly, nope.  Being security concious, nope.  Helping people in 
need, nope.  And just taser anyone out of the norm until they don't move.

Canada Customs might as well change their motto, "To fleace and collect."

Last time I crossed the border their primary concern was if my vehicle was 
GST paid and how much booze I had.  They didn't ask me for any ID even 
though I had it ready.