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Originally posted by lingham:
I lived in NY the first 62 years of my life about an hours drive from the Canadian border. We would typically take a trip to Niagara Falls once or twice a year without a problem. A few years ago the son of a friend went on a charter bus trip with a bunch of friends for a batchelor party at a strip club on the Canadian side. Upon attempting to cross the border the Canadian
border patrol entered the bus and took the names of everyone on the bus. They returned a few minutes later and said all were free to enter except my friends son. He was removed from the bus and told that he could not enter Canada because he had been charged and convicted of DWAI a few years earlier. He was told that even though 'driving while ability impaired was a misdemeanor in NY it was a felony in Canada and therefore as a felon he was not welcome in Canada. He was forced to wait on the US side for the busses return.