jdoe wrote:
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> >Some of them are real dicks and are too ignorant about simple geography to
> >understand. My brother lives close to Fort Erie and frequently travels to
> >Ottawa to visit his son. If he sticks to Ontario highways he has to drive
> >north to get to the QEW and drive almost 30 miles west to get around Lake
> >Ontario and then start going east. It is shorter to hop across the border
> >at Buffalo and save that extra distance around the lake. He also misses the
> >heavy traffic congestion in, through and out of Toronto. He figures it
> >saves him at least an hour. He always gets hassled about the border, not
> >just that they don't understand how it can be shorter, but as if taking a
> >short cut through the US is not a valid excuse to enter the country.
>
> bingo, using the US as a short cut is indeed not a valid reason for
> entry.
If that is the case, we should shut our border to the thousands of US
trucks that use the Ontario corridor to get from NY to MI. |