Originally Posted by
murmurdoc
As subsequent posts demonstrate, that isn't secondary, that's primary. I fly YYZ/TLV regularly and the exit interview leaving Israel is always fascinating. I'm surprised OP didn't mention the pleasant young men who looked around and under his cab/car about a kilometer short of the terminal with very heavy artillery slung on their shoulders - don't see that at Pearson too often.
That aside, secondary is what you get when you are my brother-in-law who grew up (in Canada) speaking Hebrew (Israeli parents) and broke into the inter-agent dialogue in fluent Hebrew a few minutes after initially representing himself as a unilingual anglophone. And yes they have special rooms for that, and yes they feel about a million miles farther from Canada than you already are, and no he won't be doing that again . . .
Actually, the OP is a she, not a he. I double-checked and everything!
I still think what I went through was "secondary" screening. "Primary" was the brief 1 or 2 minute interview most passengers had at the end of the first line-up in the terminal. "Secondary" was the 30-minute grilling those of us who were plucked out of line and moved to a different part of the terminal experienced. What your brother-in-law went through, in a separate room, sounds like an even more intense version of "secondary". But if you want to call what I went through "primary", it's okay with me.
