FlyerAl:

How many illegal refugees have you seen de-plane?

As if the other posts on this topic haven't covered it well enough, *Customs* doesn't deal with illegal refugees, or refugees at all (one wonders how that adjective seems to turn up everywhere, despite any tribunal's finding).

Immigration does. Andrew Webber actually has a good suggestion (one that is operationally in practice already) of putting Immigration first. Next time you clear yourself and goods for entry to Canada, think about which questions are asked first (normal order is citizenship, residency, purchases/gifts). A bass-ackwards questioning, however, would ask Canadian residents whether or not they were bringing in any gifts worth more than $60CAD, a question better suited for non-residents.

As for wild conspiracy theories of vast legions of terrorist organizations basing themselves out of Canadian cities...what makes you so confident that these terrorists were more likely born abroad than in Canada?

(Weren't we talking about something entirely different, anyway? Right, priority tags. Let's put dayglo priority tags on all Canadian citizens and regular-coloured ones on landed immigrants. Anyone with a Minister's permit, employment authorization or student authorization gets a regular tag. Those travellers not falling into these two categories will be beaten until they confess.)