Originally Posted by
LH/LX
One thing I've been thinking about for a long time and can't understand its logic: Why is that when we travel by car or ferry we can use the enhanced driver's license to cross the border between Canada and USA and if we travel by airplane we can not use the same tool
Isn't the issue here is to enter both countries at the end in easiness or is it that travel by air is less secure than land that both countries require a passport to do cross border travel ?
Why both Canada and USA don't adapt the same travel system that is implemented in the European countries and facilitate travel between the two countries in order to attract tourists and business from other places in the world !!!
When you arrive at an airport from out of Canada, you enter a common line that includes flights arriving from potentially anywhere in the world. The enhanced license is not an alternative to a passport and therefore can't be used where a passport is a requirement for all. If you are entering the US at a Canadian airport, you are not necessarily entering from Canada only. The difference with land/ferry travel is that you have to be arriving from either the US or Canada by necessity.