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There is a good reason I keep in my ignore list trolls who read one thing ("if you ask me about US Border patrol I have to mention that..." , "having crossed the US border many times, and having seen hundreds, may be thousands of others cross through POE in front of me....", with no mention of number of times Canadian border was crossed) , and then see into it something that isn't there (such as: "if you ask me about Canadian Border patrol I have to mention that..." , "having crossed the Canadian border many times, and having seen hundreds, may be thousands of others cross through POE in front of me....".

Hard to parse this but let's be clear: the original claim was "if you ask me about US Border patrol I have to mention that it will not treat you the same way Canadian will ... I can say that I haven't seen same behavior/attitude in US border patrol as I have in Canadian". This is, of necessity, a claim of comparison between two border services.

From an individual who (clear from the posted link) has not crossed the Canadian border in, at minimum, several years, and possibly not that much at all.

But by all means: if this 'expert' wishes to clarify the extent of experience, fine. The record of inaccurate statements is clear, however.
 
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If someone crossed into Canada vial land POE twice and on both occassions had poor experience dealing with border agents, then one had 100% poor experience dealing with Canadian border agents.

If someone crossed into the US 20+ times (via land and air port of entry) and on all occassions received a friendly waive, that's 0% bad expereince dealing with US border patrol at POE.

One has every valid reason to share impression about the quality of those experiences, and the first statement ("crossed into US 20+ times") in no way implies that the speaker made the same number of crossings into Canada. Furthermore, one does not need to cross into Canada 20+ times to state that he had satisfactory experience dealing with US border agents. Nor someone who crossed into Canada twice, and on both occassions had poor experience, needs to keep crossing into Canada to say he had 100% bad expereince on all border crossings into Canada. There simply isn't any contradiciton in two statements, nor any grounds to equate the number of visits to one country to a number of the visits to another. In fact, most people will travel only once or twice to some other country outside of their own, but will cross the borders of their own country each time they come back. That does not mean they must keep mum about their experience at the borders of other countries, nor any reasonably person would assume that an individual who traveled to foreign countries and crossed back must have traveled to each foreign country equal number of times as one retuirned to his own (in fact this would be impossible, unless one consistently traveled to the same country abroad, over and over again, and never traveled to any other country in the world).

Certain readers , most likely trolls or people directly connected to agency being criticized hereby, keep making straw man arguments in order to "distract attention from the real issue being discussed" and to deliebrately make a logically invalid argument. This being so, our focus shall remain the same, which is to say that Canadian border agents suck, they bully and mistreat legitimate travelers, and that we speak from our own, personal experience when we say that, which was 100% poor expereince at all times, compared to our experience dealing with US border agents. No amount of trolling, straw man argument making and distraction can change or invalidate what was stated above.
 
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If someone crossed into Canada vial land POE twice and on both occassions had poor experience dealing with border agents, then one had 100% poor experience dealing with Canadian border agents.

If someone crossed into the US 20+ times (via land and air port of entry) and on all occassions received a friendly waive, that's 0% bad expereince dealing with US border patrol at POE.

One has every valid reason to share impression about the quality of those experiences, and the first statement ("crossed into US 20+ times") in no way implies that the speaker made the same number of crossings into Canada. Furthermore, one does not need to cross into Canada 20+ times to state that he had satisfactory experience dealing with US border agents. Nor someone who crossed into Canada twice, and on both occassions had poor experience, needs to keep crossing into Canada to say he had 100% bad expereince on all border crossings into Canada. There simply isn't any contradiciton in two statements, nor any grounds to equate the number of visits to one country to a number of the visits to another. In fact, most people will travel only once or twice to some other country outside of their own, but will cross the borders of their own country each time they come back. That does not mean they must keep mum about their experience at the borders of other countries, nor any reasonably person would assume that an individual who traveled to foreign countries and crossed back must have traveled to each foreign country equal number of times as one retuirned to his own (in fact this would be impossible, unless one consistently traveled to the same country abroad, over and over again, and never traveled to any other country in the world).

Certain readers , most likely trolls or people directly connected to agency being criticized hereby, keep making straw man arguments in order to "distract attention from the real issue being discussed" and to deliebrately make a logically invalid argument. This being so, our focus shall remain the same, which is to say that Canadian border agents suck, they bully and mistreat legitimate travelers, and that we speak from our own, personal experience when we say that, which was 100% poor expereince at all times, compared to our experience dealing with US border agents. No amount of trolling, straw man argument making and distraction can change or invalidate what was stated above.

So you never crossed into the US via marine port of entry? On the contrary, I did once few years ago. It's not a bad experience overall and travelers (like me) just have to queue up to deal with the US border patrol. On return, there's just a friendly waive from the Canadian side - that's a zero bad experience dealing with Canadian border services at POE.
 
So you never crossed into the US via marine port of entry? On the contrary, I did once few years ago. It's not a bad experience overall and travelers (like me) just have to queue up to deal with the US border patrol. On return, there's just a friendly waive from the Canadian side - that's a zero bad experience dealing with Canadian border services at POE.

No , I haven't, but what you describe sounds plausible. Every time I return to US via major airport, I am just as inconvenienced. There are always thousands of people lined up to reach the border agent, to be admitted into the US. But the individual agent has nothing to do with it. Perhaps, it's stingy of the agency not to hire enough people to process huge volume of incoming travelers, but there is no bullying, malice or ill will in it.
 
If someone crossed into Canada vial land POE twice and on both occassions had poor experience dealing with border agents, then one had 100% poor experience dealing with Canadian border agents.

If someone crossed into the US 20+ times (via land and air port of entry) and on all occassions received a friendly waive, that's 0% bad expereince dealing with US border patrol at POE.

So to be clear here: the vast amount of experience being shared here is ... a grand total of two entries into Canada.

I believe the current vernacular is "LOL." You must be kidding.

I suggest a control group of individuals crossing the border who are ... not you. Because, statistically and scientifically, it's at least 50% probable that the issue is not the CBSA.

This being so, our focus shall remain the same, which is to say that Canadian border agents suck, they bully and mistreat legitimate travelers, and that we speak from our own, personal experience when we say that, which was 100% poor expereince at all times, compared to our experience dealing with US border agents.

Seriously, think whatever you want; just expect that others will point out that you're clealry full of it.

No, most people don't have big issues at the Canadian border (or vice versa, really). Some have issues. Pretty average (by any reasonable standard of comparison, really).
 
From my post in a parallel thread-

Beware of people who tell rosy stories and sing dithyrambs to border patrol. They are either paid trolls or are directly affiliated with the agency they praise.
The reality is something else. Read these articles from mainstream media to get better idea of what you may encounter at POE: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/travellers-complain-cbsa-officers-rude-1.4809386
https://www.todayville.com/edmonton...ude-disrespectful-canadian-border-officers-2/
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/09/05...ded-as-rude-and-disrespectful/comment-page-1/
https://www.thestar.com/news/insigh...deness_maybe_the_jerk_method_doesnt_work.html

Just beware.