Originally Posted by
naplesyrupeater
Montreal is by far the WORST city to deal with Canada Customs in. I've been told that after completing training in Rigaud, Quebec, their first assignment is commonly Dorval. So they're a little more militant and by the book when it comes to collecting duties.
The only times I have been searched or made to pay duties is in Montreal. In Toronto, I ocaasionally bring in more than my limit but I always declare and am waved through and sometimes thanked for my honesty in declaring.
Interesting - I have always found the reverse to be the case. All my nasty experiences with Customs have been at YYZ ; YUL I have generally found to be pretty reasonable. I wouldn't say the difference was so much one of stringency as that the YYZ people are more likely to be rude or to ask completely off-the-wall questions. So maybe in a certain sense YUL
are more 'by-the-book'.
Originally Posted by
Vaclav
Are we "behind the times", checking a bottle here or a carton of cigarettes there and losing the big picture in the process?
I'd say yes. It is interesting to look back on the 1920s and the days of Canada > U.S. liquor bootlegging &c. Now it's Canadians trying to sneak an extra bottle of good French wine
into Canada.
