Originally Posted by
CBSAguy
The reason we ask more questions is because one can elicit a lot more information from a person's responses to questions than one can by simply looking at someone's face, as you've informed me is the primary screening tool in use by Chinese and Russian border officials.
Right, BSOs never use physical indicators to make decisions.
So using this logic, a nuclear physicist dressed by Harry Rosen would be sent to secondary the exact same number of times as the a nuclear physicist who subscribes to a system similar to that of what we once called "hippies".
I'd like to say I could believe that.
Originally Posted by
CBSAguy
Sounds like you want the exemptions raised. That's fair, but do not complain to me about having to pay duty/tax that is lawfully owing. Complain to your MP. He/she will certainly have more clout in that regard than I do.
You're kidding me. The 'green means go, red means stop, and nothing else' mantra is why the public hates your agency so much.
Especially considering senate committee after senate committee have said that these exemptions
should be raised. Maybe Canada's political elite are sending signals to the front liners? I know that managers in cBSa are dicks, but there's no way you can say they would try to take disciplinary action towards a BSO for sending an overage on its way.
This is one example of how the USA's obsession with the wars on drugs and terrorism can be a good thing for normal people; because they carry guns, their front liners care about targeting the big fish who are a threat to the nation. Ironically, this more friendly to the public than the agency who would want to meet the tax window's quota by nailing the college kid who lawfully declaring an extra mickey of vodka on his annual vacation.
I bet the BSo's who dump all the forfeited liquor down sleep like infants every night.