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Old Nov 14, 2022 | 4:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Badenoch
Admission of an intent to commit illegal act while in the country would certainly get you sent to secondary. If a CBSA officer were told the reason for coming to Canada was to rob a bank I'm fairly sure they wouldn't just wave the person through.
Even before my homeland entered the EU and travelling on that "Second World" passport, I was never subjected, anywhere in Europe, to the kind of questions that CBSA officials ask me as a returning Canadian citizen.

This notion that a citizen entering his own country should somehow be under suspicion of intending to commit a crime is just... I have a word for it, but don't want to get permanently suspended from this forum. Good Lord!
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