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Apr 12, 2007 | 6:21 am

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Originally Posted by Superguy

Thread title says it all. I'm headed on my first trip to Canada in 2 weeks. Is it pretty much the same as the US or are there any differences I should know about?

Shoes don't always -- or even generally -- come off in Canada. Other than that, Canada's "CATSA" (or whatever it's called) is basically much akin to our own TSA.

So do everything you do for the TSA minus the shoe carnival and you should be ok in O'Canada land.

For your return, immigration/customs procedures are a bit different; for the major Canadian airports with flights to the US, you'll have to do US immigration/customs clearance in Canada when flying from there to the US. And so after check-in you have to take yourself and all of your luggage past immigration and customs and then hand your bags over for check in.

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