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One Foot In Canada, The Other In The US

Posted on Sunday, June 25 at 13:59 by jensonj
There are no immigration officers waiting outside the building's thick oak doors, asking for identification; there are no lines of cars or people. Just the hushed quiet of a library and occasional voices whispering in English and French. The library has two addresses and two payrolls -- one for U.S. staff, one for Canadians. Some workers speak in English; others in the French-Canadian dialect of Quebec. Paying taxes, complicated anywhere, is double the work. The north side of the building and land demand Canadian taxes and paperwork; U.S. returns are filled out for the south. After a day of interviewing locals in Vermont and Quebec about security at a remote U.S. Customs outpost, it was an ideal venue for writing the story. It summed up exactly why tightening the U.S.-Canada border will be so tough. http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=157407 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on June 26, 2006]

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  1. by RPW
    Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:28 pm
    <blockquote>You can enter from Vermont, but its back-door emergency exit is in Canada.</blockquote> How appropriate for some reason.......... <p>---<br>RickW<br />
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    "The purpose of economic competition is to eliminate competition"...." - John Kenneth Galbraith

  2. by Roy_Whyte
    Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:26 am
    Never heard of that place - thanks for posting this.

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    If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

  3. by Brother Jonathan
    Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:33 am
    <p>The Haskell is in my neighbourhood, relatively speaking (about 30 km north of my home). I’ve attended a few concerts at the Opera House; see <a href="http://www.tomifobia.com/3villages/">here</a> for this year’s line-up. (If you’re going to be in the Eastern Townships on Canada Day, I’d particularly recommend catching Bob Milne.)</p> <p>Major renovations were completed on it a few years back — check out some of the jaw-dropping details of complying with building codes of four different jurisdictions (Canada, USA, Québec, Vermont) for a single building <a href="http://www.tomifobia.com/haskell/haskell.html">here</a>. Fortunately, the final results are outstanding.</p> <p>One glaring error in the article is that <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/HaskellLibraryBorderLine.jpg/394px-HaskellLibraryBorderLine.jpg">the black line within the library that delineates the border</a> is much, much closer to the 45th parallel than to the 49th. (It’s not <i>exactly</i> on the 45th parallel for historical reasons.) In the link above, Vermont is on the left and Québec is on the right.</p><p>---<br>Shatter your ideals upon the rock of Truth.<br />
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    — The Divine Symphony, by Inayat Khan<br />



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