<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by AC*SE:
...It would have deterred many people from coming to visit Canada, and would have had potential consequences for cross-border business.
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Why do we live in fear of this? It should be apparent that the Americans don't care about the business consequences of a lot of the things they do.
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In the case of a passport requirement, it should be borne in mind that a large proportion of US citizens do not carry passports. Many of them, confronted by the need to obtain one would say, "well why bother going to Canada, then?"....</font>
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Good. Those who are business people will fulfill the necessary requirements. For the rest, this will be a good wake-up call that the vast majority of Canadians don't have a passport either!
[This message has been edited by PunishedEdmontonian (edited 09-15-2003).]