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- From: karim@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Karim Younes)
- Subject: Re: Canadian driving American-owned car in Canada -- illegal?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.153408.27822@bnrmtl.bnr.ca>
- Keywords: stupid Canadian laws
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Montreal, Canada.
- References: <1993Jan24.201227.15499@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Distribution: can
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:34:08 GMT
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- In <1993Jan24.201227.15499@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) writes:
-
- >I called Avis International to enquire how much a car rental would cost
- >if I planned to rent from Seattle, Washington and drive to Vancouver,
- >BC and back. They informed me that Canada has some law stating that
- >a Canadian citizen cannot drive an American-owned car in Canada. Has
- >anyone ever heard of this? What is the rational for it? Is there any
- >way around it?
-
- Yep. I had a problem like that many years ago, driving up from
- California to Vancouver. When we went through the Canadian border
- on our way to Vancouver, the guard didn't say anything. However,
- a week later, we tried to cross the border back to the US side,
- and spent a couple of interesting hours trying to explain to
- the US border people how the hell we had been able to drive one
- of their cars to Canada.
-
- I don't think there is a way around it, unless you have two
- passports :-)
-
- --
- Karim "Kouki" Younes Bell-Northern Research
- karim@bnr.ca Montreal, Canada
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