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the Canadian border guards are all "Welcome to our country! Have a pleasant visit!"
This might be because you're American.
They're sure not that way to a Jamaican former-Canadian resident. And listening to them threaten people crossing their border was very illuminating. And, I'm sure, ultimately useless.
Yay on the new job, msbelle!
I should get back to my grading. Feh.
My experience has been that French-Canadian border guards are not very nice people.
A passport is where the visas go.
I love it when ita gets all logical. Thing of beauty.
French-Canadian border guards are not very nice people
no shit. But most of the Canadian border guards in airports have not been all that pleasant. As a traveler, I'm not that pleasant either though.
The US confuses the issue a little by having some of their checkpoints located in the foreign airport. So for example you have to show a passport before you board a plane from Montreal to New York.
The US also makes airlines collect all nationalty info before boarding and if doesn't match exactly to entry at US Customs they face a stiff fine.
My general impression regarding the USA/Canada border has been that the Canadian border guards are all "Welcome to our country! Have a pleasant visit!" while the American ones are more "Who the fuck are you and why should we let you in?!?"
This was not at all my experience, as I spent over an hour after my last flight to Toronto trying to explain to immigration that, no, I was not moving to Canada.
Most of my Canadian border crossings have not been into Quebec. But the border guards are about averagely assholish, slanted to more when I listened to one in particular run through "We're gonna get you, don't even look at Vancouver funny" threats. It was depressingly mechanical bullying.
The Canadian border guards I have met have generally been suspicious of why I would want to go to Prince George, BC. The answer that an internet friend lives there doesn't impress them.
I'm ok if border guards are assholes. They're not the welcoming committee.
Yeah, the one time I've driven to Canada they were mean, but the airport ones have always been nice enough. I don't need super friendly, just efficient and not mean.