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Old Apr 24, 2006 | 9:33 pm
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Originally Posted by gglave
However, one thing I don't understand is why Canadian and American citizens can't move freely back and forth across the border. I don't understand why, as a Canadian, I have to deal with all this "why are you working and what are you doing business" and ditto I dont' understand why US citizens have the same rigamorole coming here. We should just 100% prove we're a citizen of each other's nation and that should be enough.
why? Because the US doesn't really trust Canadians (remember Ahmed Ressam?) and our own Keystone Kops of a border protection agency needs to ape everything that their American counterparts do. It's called reciprocity.
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