# Thank you, Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505 "2006-09-21T01:55:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505/81 "2008-02-05T05:29:41Z")
Some more info today - Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, Stockwell Day, appears to have been trying to persuade his counter-part, Michael Chertoff, to take Mr. Arar off the US watch list. The American authorities take the position that they have independent information that warrants keeping Mr. Arar on the list. They’ve shared that info with their Canadian counterparts, who don’t think there’s anything new in it. Minister Day has written four letters to Secretary Chertoff, but without any effect. [Day tried four times to get Arar off U.S. No-fly list](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080204.ARAR04/TPStory/?query=arar) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505/82 "2008-02-05T11:32:11Z")
From your link, with bolding added by me: > [@](#): > > Mr. Chertoff and Canadian officials, including Mr. Day, have had their differences over other issues, such as the U.S. policy requiring new documents at the border that took effect last week, and the **fingerprinting of people who approach the Canada-U.S. border but do not cross**. > > When Canada refused fingerprinting last April, Mr. Chertoff abruptly walked out of talks in a move some viewed as a blemish on bilateral relations. That’s over the top. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505/83 "2008-02-05T11:40:37Z")
Jesus Christ. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505/84 "2008-02-05T13:51:27Z")
We’re going to do it, aren’t we? We’re going to wind up having a “stand off” with Canada. Crap. What’s wrong with you Canadians? Why can’t you just do as you’re told? :dubious: Wait. You don’t have any oil reserves up there, do you? Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505/85 "2008-02-05T17:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Mr. Chertoff and Canadian officials, including Mr. Day, have had their differences over other issues, such as the U.S. policy requiring new documents at the border that took effect last week, and the fingerprinting of people who approach the Canada-U.S. border but do not cross. Yup, we’re just expanding the U.S. Co-prosperity Sphere a few miles. Lebesnraum, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505/86 "2008-02-05T17:44:39Z")
Relax, it’s just a last ditch effort by Bush & co. to ram something else stupid down the hemisphere’s throat. Look how long it took the buggers to require passports for all travellers. And even so, immigration is still letting people pass without one. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505/87 "2008-02-05T17:48:16Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] We’re going to do it, aren’t we? We’re going to wind up having a “stand off” with Canada. Crap. What’s wrong with you Canadians? Why can’t you just do as you’re told? :dubious: Wait. You don’t have any oil reserves up there, do you? Peace, mangeorge [/QUOTE] Nope, no oil in Canada, nopey nope nope nope. _whistles nonchalantly_ So the US Government requires my passport, eh? Then why in the hell do they want my green card, and NOT my passport, when I return from Mexico next week? Fuckers. I paid through the nose and waited three months to get it, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-canada/373505.md?page=4)