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Been poking around various sites and sure there's an answer available but have run out of patience and hope someone can enlighten me. Spending most of my life livin' North of the 49th parallel, I have a huge affinity for Canucks, despite their super stupid firearms laws. Anyway, am now relocated from MI's Upper Penninsula to NE Washington State and greatly enjoy hiking the Canadian Rockies in BC/Alberta.
Yesterday an instructor from my Spokane Mountaineer's class informed me that there was a 3 1/2" max blade length on fixed blade knives if crossing into BC. Having already wisened up and ordered a SRCT; since I've apparently long-lost my formerly trusty Gerber folder, which I now realize was pretty useless as a survival implement, I'm disapointed to think that I'll have to contravene Canadian law every time I cross their border by smuggling a simple mountain hiking tool into country.
Anybody know the true state of affairs re this situation?
Actually, going into CA's much less nerve wracking than the reverse of coming back into the US. Sorry, but the Border Patrol's become a bunch of supervisor generated fear-based and protocol driven fools. Personally, I believe in profiling. Why spend 45 minutes tearing down my and the Super Poodle's Toyota truck when we've lived less than two hours South of the border for more than four years, have legal passports and shot records, unbroken work records , speeding tickets on file, concealed weapons permits with FBI cleared finger prints, valid RN licensure, zip lifetime legal entanglements, an easily recallable Viet-Nam Era Army record (R.A.-thank you) and a truck bed full of 10 days worth of stinking, filthy hiking gear and nary a hint of BC Bud; not a smoker anyway but legality of MJ's a whole nother question for some other forum.
I'll hand it to them, they we're efficient and found stuff in my truck I hadn't seen in five years, such as five $100 bills of emergency money. On the other hand they didn't locate the surfeit of non-Rx Canadian ibuprofen-codeine pain meds and the dog or myself could've been armed to the teeth but weren't searched.
I don't mention this to in any way denigrate the Border Patrol, they've a tough job to do, are under a lot of pressure and were very professional. I've been an EMT and support the efforts of law enforcement; it just seems these efforts are being somewhat missaplied if we are truly concerned about securing our borders.
Yesterday an instructor from my Spokane Mountaineer's class informed me that there was a 3 1/2" max blade length on fixed blade knives if crossing into BC. Having already wisened up and ordered a SRCT; since I've apparently long-lost my formerly trusty Gerber folder, which I now realize was pretty useless as a survival implement, I'm disapointed to think that I'll have to contravene Canadian law every time I cross their border by smuggling a simple mountain hiking tool into country.
Anybody know the true state of affairs re this situation?
Actually, going into CA's much less nerve wracking than the reverse of coming back into the US. Sorry, but the Border Patrol's become a bunch of supervisor generated fear-based and protocol driven fools. Personally, I believe in profiling. Why spend 45 minutes tearing down my and the Super Poodle's Toyota truck when we've lived less than two hours South of the border for more than four years, have legal passports and shot records, unbroken work records , speeding tickets on file, concealed weapons permits with FBI cleared finger prints, valid RN licensure, zip lifetime legal entanglements, an easily recallable Viet-Nam Era Army record (R.A.-thank you) and a truck bed full of 10 days worth of stinking, filthy hiking gear and nary a hint of BC Bud; not a smoker anyway but legality of MJ's a whole nother question for some other forum.
I'll hand it to them, they we're efficient and found stuff in my truck I hadn't seen in five years, such as five $100 bills of emergency money. On the other hand they didn't locate the surfeit of non-Rx Canadian ibuprofen-codeine pain meds and the dog or myself could've been armed to the teeth but weren't searched.
I don't mention this to in any way denigrate the Border Patrol, they've a tough job to do, are under a lot of pressure and were very professional. I've been an EMT and support the efforts of law enforcement; it just seems these efforts are being somewhat missaplied if we are truly concerned about securing our borders.