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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (795)	11/26/2002 12:05:46 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1293

The most porous border is the Canadian Arctic. A Russian "scientific" team lived on one of the Islands doing observations for two years before the CDNs knew they were there. (Or so they say). Also the Antarctic is fairly easy to penetrate. Up there for ease of sneak are Afghanistan-Pakistan, England-France (planes and boats landall the time..) and US-Mexico. It is possible to get across the CDN-US border without being seen or at the crossings without too much interrogation but a lot more get caught than is generally thought. That is because the country is deuced difficult to get to with any sort of vehicle where you cannot be observed. Lots are caught 10 or 20 miles from checkpoints on snowmobiles. In the really wild places, it is hard to get to the border and harder to get to any sort of civilization after you cross. And when you do get to the outskirts of some place, you are going to stand out like a sore thumb. So the idea that the CDN-US border is easy to jump or not being checked at crossings is largely imaginary. You hear it from some draconian-authoritarian law enforcement officials in favour of having everyone in ankle bracelets but other than that, it's a non-issue. At official crossings they check everyone in every vehicle fairly assiduously and they have done so for 40 years that I know about. And except for standard phony-waybill smuggling nothing much escapes them! The old open-border drivel that gets tossed around is due to the fact that visas and passports are not necessary. Other than that, it is more difficult and time consuming to cross than say Germany-France. EC<:-}

To: Crocodile who wrote (795)	11/26/2002 9:17:41 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1293

Crocodile, I was struck by this comment from that article... The favorite Canadian quote on cross-border relations came from the late Pierre Trudeau. Living next door to the U.S., the former prime minister said, is like sleeping with an elephant; you feel every twitch and grunt. He was perhaps too diplomatic to point out that Canada is actually more like a flea on an elephant's ass -- invisible unless we prove too annoying, and then easily crushed. That's a fact Canadians are forced to accept. But it doesn't lead to fond feelings. I'd say the relationship between the US and Canada is more like that of a cape buffalo and oxpecker. The bird makes a good living off the beast, but it has to be nice. Here's an illustration from a nifty kid's site I just stumbled upon. You can paint it any color you want... <g> enchantedlearning.com P.S. Will comment later on the southern US border area. P.P.S. I see the embers are still alive from the 1837-1838 rebellion... Quebec Gives National Holiday a Rebellious Name story.news.yahoo.com