antirealist has it nailed.

I have the same experience with my UK passport entering at LHR: "welcome home."

Pre-NEXUS, we would get preposterous grillings including the following:

CBSA: Where have you been?
Me: UK
CBSA: Why?
Me: I had meetings and my wife had some medical appointments
CBSA: What kind of work?
Me: Customer meetings
CBSA: What customers?
Me: [whomever]
CBSA: What doctor did you visit? Why? What for? Have you seen them before? Did they diagnose anything?

There is absolutely NO REASON why a CBSA officer needs to know the answers to ANY of these questions to determine our elibibility for entry into Canada.

Similar grilling go on at the Ambassador Bridge, although in this case, it's all about bloody duty. Countless people I know remark about how there is so much emphasis put on whether someone has a bottle of wine. It seems all about the customs duty. The limits we have right now should be eliminated, or raised to $2000 as Senator Kenny's committee recommended.

For the poster who remarked that it would be good to have separate lines for Canadian citizens and non-Canadian citizens, I would tend to agree. It would speed things greatly for the non-Canadian citizens.

Simon