Re: IAOC requesting input on (potential) meeting cities

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

At least once, I was questioned extensively when going from the US to a
meeting in Canada. I had to show evidence of the meeting and my itinerary
and convince them that I wasn’t entering Canada to take work away from a
Canadian. That said, I still support holding meetings in Canada.

Cheers,
Andy

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> On 4/4/17 1:56 PM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> > Jared, man, read the newspapers.
>
> Well, there's certainly that (the Canadian paper, the Globe and
> Mail, has done a lot of excellent work on tracking down incidents
> where Canadians have had problems entering the US, as one example).
>
> I think the broader problem is that there's just a lot of uncertainty
> and inconsistency, and even if it were possible to collect an
> authoritative list of incidents it wouldn't capture the problem that
> many people crossing the border in and out of the US these days don't
> really know what to expect.  It's one thing when you're not sure
> whether or not your bag of dog food will be permitted in and an
> entirely different one when you're not sure whether or not you'll
> be turned back.
>
> I don't know how to capture that uncertainty in a way that will
> satisfy the skeptics but it does seem to me to be a very serious
> problem with respect to planning.
>
> Melinda
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