Is Passport Required to Canada?
Dec 4, 2007 | 4:15 am
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Moving this thread to the Canada forum. Thanks for your understanding.
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Dec 4, 2007 | 10:18 am
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Then they complain about border waits and controls.
Dec 4, 2007 | 11:35 am
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I'm all for maintaining sovereignty of Canada's immigration laws and not being subservient to the U.S. The only people who are complaining are tourism operators in Canada (I say market more to the non-U.S. market) and some freight movers.
Dec 4, 2007 | 12:17 pm
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If an American wants to cross the border s/he should be free to do so, no questions ask. Ditto Canadians into the USA. All they would need to do is show proof of citizenship.
Each country could maintain their existing rules for non-citizens of the USA and Canada.
Dec 4, 2007 | 12:21 pm
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As a Canadian, I'm fine with maintaining our laws, the with the exception of US and Canadian CITIZENS.
If an American wants to cross the border s/he should be free to do so, no questions ask. Ditto Canadians into the USA. All they would need to do is show proof of citizenship.
Each country could maintain their existing rules for non-citizens of the USA and Canada.
If an American wants to cross the border s/he should be free to do so, no questions ask. Ditto Canadians into the USA. All they would need to do is show proof of citizenship.
Each country could maintain their existing rules for non-citizens of the USA and Canada.
In a way, sort of like the UK's relationship to the EU...the UK has not joined Schengen, so there are border controls, but there is a free movement of citizens/labor between the UK and (except for some of the new EU countries) EU.
Dec 4, 2007 | 2:25 pm
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I understands everybody's comments on check 'other' but once again, I'm stubborn and it's a matter of principle because I am muslim but I really shouldn't have to swear to anything because I am. It's the same thing as applications that ask my race.... I say human....
As am I getting older, I feel my pet peeves about these types of questions are getting larger and larger.... oh well I will wait the 2 years or so for citizenship.
Dec 4, 2007 | 10:05 pm
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I didn't think it was required for Canada. The oddest thing happened the other day though. I was standing at a departure gate in Cleveland with a Captain and the Flight Attendant. We were flying a flight to Ottawa. The gate agent checked our passports (which they never do, only company IDs) and then called each passenger to the podium one by one to check passports. Not sure what this was about 
Dec 6, 2007 | 3:18 am
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I didn't think it was required for Canada. The oddest thing happened the other day though. I was standing at a departure gate in Cleveland with a Captain and the Flight Attendant. We were flying a flight to Ottawa. The gate agent checked our passports (which they never do, only company IDs) and then called each passenger to the podium one by one to check passports. Not sure what this was about
As for the main question. An American/Canadian citizen doesn't need a passport to fly into Canada BUT he/she does need a passport to fly back to the US.
Dec 6, 2007 | 10:22 pm
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If you're so worried about your sovereignty, then you shouldn't mind if Canadians are subject to the same U.S. immigration/customs procedures as any other country. No special privileges, no special breaks, no nothing.
Just because the U.S. says something is green doesn't mean Canadians automatically have to say it's blue, you know.
Last edited by CousinNick; Dec 6, 2007 at 10:29 pm