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Originally Posted by 12clicksMichele
And what if her parents paid for her trip, round trip, because of a families members illness or if they were dying? Again all the facts are not known.
Also you can be on welfare and have a job. Welfare is not always exclusively cash assistance.
No one knows all the facts to the story so no one can say that this woman was intending to enter Canada to take advantage of their health care or whatever. Obviously if she was already recieving assistance why would she need to go to Canada to get it!
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What is so hard for you to understand? its VERY normal when crossing the border of ANY country for them to ask about your finances and to make sure you have enough money to survive.
In spite of what people here might think... CANADA has ALWAYS done this for people driving from Alaska to the rest of the States and most countries do it and have always done it.
Furthermore, entry requirements are based on reciprocal rules. When one side establishes new criteria, the other side does the same for people originating from that country.
It's fine to say "i dunno because i don't travel much" - but you guys are yammering on and on about something that is such a normal thing for going anywhere and post 9/11 travel between the US and Canada changed drastically and continued to change as new rules were implemented on both sides to better secure borders and track who is coming and going.
I used to live on the border and go to Vancouver constantly... I stopped because it wasn't worth the pain in the ass it had become.
It's like you people don't even realize that Canada and the US are two different countries.