On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:53:39 GMT, "l, not -l" > wrote:

>
>On 2-Jun-2009, wrote:
>
>> I don't know how you feel about it but I resent that we as your
>> neighbour have to produce passports to cross the border we have been
>> doing so as friends and neighbours for over a 100 years. It makes us
>> feel as though we're the enemy you want to keep out and not your
>> neighbours. Think about it.
>
>How would we recognize neighborly Canadians from unfriendly people just
>passing through Canada to get to the US? Even if you could tell by looking,
>our laws frown upon "profiling", thus we can't exclude all arabs & mulims.
>Same applies to other unfriendlies, such as the French; we can't exclude
>french speaking people 'cause some are Canadians.
>
>We are stuck with looking at passports to keep out as many of the
>unfriendlies as we can identify. You nice Canadian folk don't need to do
>that because the muslim wacko's haven't yet targeted your country - yet.


We've caught numerous terrorists, and broken up many of their cells
before they did us damage, but it's was nice of you to neglect that
fact.