Canadians to require passports to enter U.S.

It's official, by 2007 I will need a passport to cross the detroit river. But will an American need a passport to enter Canada? Of course not.

It's bad enough that they have turned our city into one giant transport truck parking lot by slowing down the traffic at the border (once again, this only happens on the Canadian side). Now they will start X-Raying all trains that cross the Windsor\Detroit border wich will cause backups along another major Canadian traffic artery...

I usually avoid the politics forum but I'm sick of being shit on like this and having my government take it with a smile.

 

Not true.

 

I have endured long waits in standstill traffic on the American side of the border, trying to enter Vancouver, BC. Passports and random customs inspections have been required on both sides of the border for years.

 

7+ hours? The city of Windsor has become a truck stop, Detroit definatley hasn't.

OSF did the Canadian government pass a new bill? I havn't really read into it much, was just sorta venting, but if you could direct me to an article?

 

Maybe it all depends on the location. I suspect that many more American tourists enter Vancouver, BC than Canadians who visit Washington state.

The situation is probably reversed at the Windsor-Detroit crossing.

 

The Windsor\Detroit border is probably one of the worst crossings due to the heavy truck traffic, the border on the American side rarely opens up all of it's queues so there's always backup into Windsor.

 

Interesting, I hadn't heard about this before. What's the rationale behind requiring passports? I would think terrorists would be more likely to cross the border in Montana, rather than Detroit or Niagara Falls. And aside from terrorism, I can't think of any possible reason to require passports.

 

"terrism" has been the only reasoning behind any of the hold ups at the borders since 9/11. Never used to have troubles crossing the border. One of my friends was denied crossing because he was wearing a spiked bracelet...

 

Terrorists, - that hyper-inflated boogeymen myth which serves to keep the public fearful, compliant and devoid of civic scrutiny for the criminality of the real terrorists running our nation - could easily enter the US from Canada through any number of heavily wooded foottrails or logging roads in Vermont and Maine, if this threat was in any way legitimate.

This is just further demonstration of the ongoing installation of the PNAC's intended (and Nazi era inspired) police state. Stay tuned, dear sheeple, over the course of the next decade or two. History is repeating itself, step by step whilst mainstream media dutifully distracts the public with shallow, sanitised and wholly diversionary rubbish under the guise of "news".

I'm storing away the "I told you so's" for all the head in the sanders who still want to delude themselves that it can't happen in the US.

 

No, but there is lots of time.


Read this.

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=87958&section=News

 

Cool
My passport will get a Canada stamp the next time I go gambling on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.

 

I'm not sure that you will need a US passport to enter Canada, but new rules mean you will need your US passport to re-enter the US.

Lick, thanks for your brilliant insights, once again. Indeed requiring people to have passports to enter a foreign country sure sounds like a "nazi inspired police state" to me. Its good that you never exaggerate, wouldn't want to harm what little credibility you have. Now then, are you going to start your angry reply with a "*YAWN*" or a "LOL"? Or perhaps you could come up with something new for a change?

 

Requiring biometric nonsense and eventually the quite invasive application of retina scans or even finger prints (dangerous information in the hands of repreatedly exposed liars, criminals and powermongers) is indeed additional writing on the wall for those not so demonstrably braindead as yourself.

As for credilibility, your judgement on that matter is both laughable and moot since you have none whatsoever. Keep on living in your unquestioning self deluded world where the American flag provides the sheeple with immunity from the repetition of history, just because you wish it to do so.

 

Don't need anything new where responding to your regurgitative soundbites are concerned. Same old same old receives just that in response.

Oh and obviously your repeated claims to be the champion of (what fraudulent name do they apply to it?), oh yes "free" trade (ala: NAFTA) are just more of your overlooked hypocrisy if you now apparently champion the legitimacy of requiring passports of US and Canadian citizens to travel between two countries which were long hailed by corporatists, such as yourself, as the hallmark of our own efforts toward a borderless continent.

So which is it PB? "Free" trade or police state? don't waffle now!

 

It's pretty likely that US citizens will be required to have a passport to enter Canada also.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/05/passports050405.html

I think this probably has more to do with drug trafficking then terrorism, and national security is being used as a veil.

 

quote: I think this probably has more to do with drug trafficking then terrorism, and national security is being used as a veil.


that would be just like the US government, looking for drugs at the wrong border

Is needing a passport really a big deal?

 

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I would say it is..given that all countries have them ?.. i might be wrong. Heck they all might be wrong.

No haveing a passport is no big deal..

Not sure the angle of your thought.. i covered both anyway

 

I just mean...sometimes people on here seem to overreact to things. Whats the big deal about having to use a passport to get in and out of Canada...last time they looked at my drivers license, why is this so much different than that?

 

Given that the predominance of all drugs on US streets arive there via the CIA and its well established global network, the powers in Washington and Arlington are only looking for those trying to cut in on their franchise.

 

We're obviously starting the passport game at the other border first. :H

Canada is a pretty large importer of drugs too though.