Really? Turn about if fair play. Can we make them take William Shatner back?
From: "John Mullan"
Canada takes a very dim view of Americans coming into the country and doing
any work. They may have been determining if what you were there for was
"work".
From: Stan Halpin
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 8:12 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: OT - Canadian photographer denied entry to USA
As Paul said, it works both ways. In the mid-to-late '90's I was a co-chair
of a NATO research committee. We put together a Workshop (the presentations
from which eventually became a book; and thus is world peace achieved). My
Canadian colleagues in the group organized and hosted the workshop at
Canada's counterpart to West Point in Kingston Ontario. So I went early,
hung around New York's Finger Lakes district visiting relatives, then drove
my rental car to Kingston via I-81 north, then the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway
back southwest. A nice trip expect for the border crossing into Canada. "Why
are you here?" the boarder guard queries. "To attend a NATO Workshop at the
Royal Military Academy in Kingston" I replies. I fully expected a "Welcome,
glad to have you here!" Instead I got a half-hour interrogation, careful
scrutiny of my official U.S. Army travel orders, my official invite to the
workshop on official Canadian Government stationary, my passport, my I.D
card, etc. I don't know if it was because I wasn't wearing a suit, if it was
the beard, if it was my coming in from upper NY even though I was based in
Kansas . . . Maybe he was having a bad day. But my colleague who flew
directly from KC via Toronto had a similar experience in Toronto, and he is
cleancut and appears to be much more trustworthy.
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