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Old Jun 24, 2017 | 1:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Nexpoman
I tried to use it in Montréal at the flight crew/diplomat line, but the guy at passport control had never heard of ABTC. In what I imagine to be stereotypical Canadian behavior, though, he looked at my passport (like yours, from the US), waved me through anyhow, and gently (but almost certainly mistakenly) reminded me that I should use the regular lines next time.
Definitely not stereotypical Canadian behavior, especially at airport immigration inspection. You got very lucky, even with the inspector being in the wrong. Another inspector could have put you in a room and left you there for an hour as punishment while laughing about it with his/her colleagues during breaktime at Tim Hortons - then arranged for a full dump of your bags at customs for no other reason than 90% of Canadian immigration inspectors are just outright passive-aggressive jackasses.
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