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Clive Page's avatar

I agree that it's a bit like North and South Korea, though I've never crossed that border. The last time we drove to Canada from the USA it was within the Glacier National Park, a park which was explicitly designed to be trans-national. My wife and I, both with UK passports, thought that entering Canada would take seconds, instead a very aggressive border official grilled us for over half-an-hour, despite us showing evidence that we were staying in a hotel on the US side and would be crossing back later the same day. This interrogation cut into the time we had to see the Park before returning to the USA later that afternoon - which took no time at all. Whey do some Canadians hate us Brits so much? I've no idea, but it isn't the only time I've found that entering Canada was an unpleasant experience.

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Mike909's avatar

Having visited my wife's aunt who lives in Canada near the border, I can only agree with that view of the border. We all went to the US, crossing the border by car and I was warned not to make any jokes and not say anything unless asked. And then keep it short. The guns and the like were quite the experience for a Brit and it seemed just like Nick said about N&S Korea.

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