Re: [81attendees] New Requirement for US Employees traveling to Canada

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 7/9/2011 8:44 AM, Mary Barnes wrote:
> In the past I have found Canada to be pretty picky about you telling them you
> are there for business, because they interpret that to mean you are there to
> make money.  So, whenever I traveled there in the past, I told them I was there
> for a meeting with colleagues and I would not be doing any training or teaching
> (when asked).


+1.  That's been my experience for the last 35 years and very early on Canadian 
collegues advised me, too, to use the word 'meeting'.

However, saying "meeting" isn't always a free pass and they probe deeper.  After 
all, a meeting could be a business meeting to sign a sales agreement.

So it often helps to say something "international meeting of an Internet 
technical standards group".  It doesn't fall trippingly off the tongue, but it 
seems to be helpful.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net