On 29 Jan 2007 09:06:28 -0800, "Gabby"
wrote:
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>On Jan 29, 12:22 pm, sechumlib wrote:
>> On 2007-01-29 00:50:44 -0500, "sharx35" said:
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>> > Greg, I see no problem with strict passport requirements for ANY travel
>> > across ANY international border. If one can afford to travel, they can
>> > DAMN well afford upto $200, say, for a passport.I totally agree, and have little sympathy for the people who complain
>> that they shouldn't have to pay for passports for their whole family
>> just for one trip across the border. Once they get the passports, they
>> can cross the border as many times as they like for the next 10 (5, for
>> Canadians) years. And they probably purchase enough in souvenirs on a
>> vacation trip to defray the cost of the passports.
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>Are you aware that there is at least one family that has to cross the
>border from NB to Maine and back again to get to the post office?
>It's just the way the road goes. Needing a passport to go pick up
>your mail at the local post office is a bit much.
The American children at Point Roberts, Washington, which has no
land access to the American mainland, take a school bus which
carries them into Canada and then to anothe corssing back into
the US where their school is located.
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