Here's a two-part question for the experts and to AC on-board SD staff.

Recently returning to Canada a flight attendant distributing Canada Customs declaration forms insisted that as we were travelling together my wife and I needed only one customs declaration - and we said "no" - that we wanted one each in order to claim our own full individual "PERSONAL EXEMPTION".

This has led to a further discussion regarding the $10,000 cash limit before being required to specifically declare it. (Even together we have never come even close to carry that amount or it's equivalent at any one time.) However, we'd like to know what the law is in Canada for both entry and departure.

Some officials seem to feel and act on the basis that if people are travelling together the $10,000 limit applies to them in total and not individually; i.e. if one is carry $8,000 and the other is carrying $5,000 then they are committing an offence unless it is all declared!

Personally I feel the fact that we are travelling together is nobody's business whatsoever.