Originally Posted by
Simon
And just HOW does CBSA purport to determine I am a criminal by asking what my job is? By harrassing me about how long I have been away and what I am bringing back when it is WRITTEN ON THE FORM? By questioning other posters on this thread in the way they have? By being rude? By being aggressive?
I am a Canadian citizen. Once that is proven, I have the right of admission to Canada. If someone wants to arrest me in Canada, that is a separate issue.
The US ABSOLUTELY has the right to ask way more detailed questions of you entering their country, as you have NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to enter their country.
Unless we have way more people who are criminals trying to enter Canada on Canadian passports than entering the US on American passports or EU on EU passports, there is no reason that the level of questioning should be so much higher by CBSA than EU/US who look at the passport of their own citizens and off you go.
Your comparison of yourself, a non-citizen, entering a foreign country to me, a citizen, entering my own country is like comparing apples and motor oil. No relation, not even both food.
Simon
Simon... now now, don't be so defensive as if you are hiding something from us people. There is absolutely NO reason why you should be so defensive when an agent asks you an question that could lead to probable cause to hold you further. Your reply to that agent that it was none of their business when you were askeda bout your wife's medical, was evidently an attempt to be defensive and evasive. Think about the wording you used in replying to the agent for a minute and imagine what the agent must be wondering when you just threw them an boat anchor in the face. There is NO reason also to be rude to an CBSA agent questioning you, if they were rude, you should have JUST let them finish processing you then ask for a supervisor right there and about.
Being a "self-serving citizen" doesn't entitle you to a snub of the CBSA and their process which is supposed to work to protect THE VERY COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN!
Sanosuke!