Originally Posted by
tentseller
All departing flights file a passenger manifest along with their travel documents.
Imagine if you had one travel document to enter the country and a different document to leave. You know like Jason Bourne or something like that.
Anyway this thread has made me feel much better about this process. Seems that even if you follow the rules within normal timelines short trips to Canada lasting only a couple days are, for all intents and purposes, exempt. Chances are you could be gone before you even get the results.