Originally Posted by
YEG2MM
You can't avoid the document check. You can go to the check in counter at the airport, when you get there, and have them check the documents. That will prevent you from having to get called to the gate agent. Those that are getting the document check at the gate have checked in online. Because they have not produced their documents, they are asked for them at the gate, prior to boarding call.
* Or connecting from a partner airline.
Airlines will always do a doc check before transporting you across a boarder, otherwise if you get there and don't have the correct docs to enter the country the cost is on them to return you back to the country you came from.