Canada turning away more Americans for past legal infractions

Source: Plain Dealer

...If you're considering a holiday visit to Niagara Falls or to a Windsor casino, be advised: Canada doesn't want your company if you've ever gotten busted shoplifting, holding a joint or driving drunk...

Agreements struck in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks have opened the border to a much freer flow of criminal-background information between Canadian and U.S. law enforcement. Now, police at the international border can access the same records available to cops at the Lakewood-Rocky River border - including that years-old DUI.

Consequently, Canadian agents at airports, bridges and other crossings are routinely turning away Yanks for some offenses considered minor or ancient back home.

The Canadians and their American counterparts are using digital equipment that lets them access criminal history through items such as license plates, passports and driver's licenses...




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it's a narc world now,ey?

There's what goes around, and here's what comes around.

don't come hangin' around my door, don't wanna see your face no more."

From "American Woman", by the Guess Who

An old anti-American song by a Canadian band.

Still popular in the prarie states!

that the "woman" is the Statue of Liberty, and that there are references to the Vietnam War in it.

spy on each other - by satellite and now, they have probably hooked up Poindexter's database and the INS and HS database that lists your reading habits as well.

So if they let bush in for some reason, a stink needs to be raised.

He's got two DUIs IIRC.

I'm planning a trip to Montreal next summer, so I'll have to be on my toes. Then I can go to Vegas afterwards! :evilgrin:

our largest trading partner and millions of americans can not travel in canada. i guess they must feel very safe knowing just how many hundreds of millions of dollars they are losing in tourist money. just think, the entire upper midwest was settled by french canadians ....

It never used to be like that just a couple years ago. there will be a North American Union and it will be ran on a neo-conservative breakneck capitalist agenda - with human rights being an afterthought.

A friend of mine got stopped and they told him to go into a certain room etc etc.
After a while they get out the big book of everything and they keep calling people into this room to look at it. Pretty soon he hears laughing and babbling in French then in broken english.....No No No figh-air-crack-air!
They all come out crying and say you are free to go etc etc.

It turns out he almost didn't get into Canada because he was arrested in Iowa for a misdemeanor of throwing a firecracker. It took a while for the garda to figure out it was not a weapons charge but a fire cracker charge.
Too funny!

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What will happen to the activists arrested at the Free Trade of the Americas conference and the 2004 Republican National Convention?

...Or you'll have to go sit on the "Group W" bench.
And even a mere arrest *MAY* be enough if the FBI wants
to get nasty on you.

Several Code Pinkers (including Medea Benjamin) found
this out recently.

o http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1003-15.htm

Tesha

... that read a lot like this. So did the Gulag Archipeligo.

I've always felt a sense of pride because Canada didn't do that crap (not letting someone across the border for some minor past offence). Now we've gone over to the dark side. Gimme a break - "holding a joint"? When the penalty in Canada is usually just taking it away??

...work illegally.

"We were there for three hours. One woman was in tears. A guy was sent back for having a medical marijuana card.

(there was another article I cannot find. It said there were
a number of medical users denied entrance.)

Some day the US & Canadian republiCons will need mj
for their own medical problems.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/23/MNGCAO9NSB1.DTL&hw=medical+marijuana+canada&sn=003&sc=896