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>The Canadian agents are comically friendly, but that's because I'm coming back into my own country, where I'm a citizen, and, y'know, they have to let me in. C
by midoridensha 4y ago
>The Canadian agents are comically friendly, but that's because I'm coming back into my own country, where I'm a citizen, and, y'know, they have to let me in. Cuz it's my country.
Returning to your own country doesn't mean the agents have to be friendly to you. I'm American and the agents there are not friendly when I return. They don't just do it to non-citizens; they're assholes to everyone. Of course, there's a lot more limitations on what they can do to US citizens than to foreigners, but they don't turn into nice guys when they see a US passport.
Every time I've visited Canada, the agents there were reasonably friendly to me too. To me, this shows that the two countries simply have extremely different standards in what kind of people they hire to be agents, and how agents are allowed to act.
- iggldiggl 4y agoPurely anecdotal and third-hand and a few years old by now, but this trip report to Estcourt (another slightly unusual border situation) also bears this out: https://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/3/ https://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/3/ Quote from the Canadian border guard about the neighbouring US customs officials: "ah yes, they have a... different frame of mind"