-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-01-20 12:10, Thomas Dowling wrote: > On 01/20/2010 02:03 PM, Glen Newton wrote: >> Hmmm. No one has brought up how increasingly onerous it has become to >> travel to the U.S., as a Canadian or non-U.S resident (and >> particularly for non-Canadian, non-US residents who are fingerprinted >> on each visit!). This should should not be discounted, as much as I >> enjoy visiting place like Montpelier, close to where I have some good >> friends... > > > We could have a joint meeting in Sarnia/Port Huron and just shout across the > river to each other! (Windsor/Detroit might be too loud.) >
While I took the reference to Montpelier to refer to John Fereira's mention of the city in France (and not to the town in Vermont), Glen's point is well-taken and, from what I observed on my trip to ALA Midwinter in Boston, not widely familiar to US residents. I arrived for an 8.10am flight from Edmonton at approximately 5.30am last Thursday morning. I actually got on the plane at 8.05am, and there were others still behind me in line. Quite literally, it took less time for me to fly the leg from Edmonton to Minneapolis, than it did to board the plane in Edmonton. And then to discovery that *none* of this enhanced regime is currently implemented in the US reduced the entire exercise to optics of the most cynical sort. TSA is enforcing on foreign-originated flights levels of intrusive "security" and inconvenience that would be unsustainable and politically unacceptable in the US. Have we forgotten from where the September 11th flights originated? Apologies for the off-topic drift, but you all ought to be aware of this... - - mt - -- ************************************************************************* Marc Truitt Associate University Librarian, Bibliographic and Information Voice : 780-492-4770 Technology Services e-mail : marc.tru...@ualberta.ca University of Alberta Libraries fax : 780-492-9243 Cameron Library cell : 780-217-0356 Edmonton, AB T6G 2J8 Then unsuspecting Chlorine felt a magnetic pull. She looked down and her outside shell was full. Sodium cried, "What a gas! Be my bride! And I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride..." --Kate McGarrigle, 1979 ************************************************************************* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLV1rDAAoJEEqQdEilOOU4rNwH/0i7AoUc5fS0GTrg6oAN9pzA nViQm2g1/ak4mOFGw0TKg+3/UWq1CxF1GCkLAvFQTNFtW41YRTzJ5KcAKVPWyGCL P7Fvn0KC5MeHt/z/yytCC0jy6ZZrFYIGA0jGUhjRcR5161tfLo6Ac4QQZDlZo7G9 fVmLJz29cMdEsH3OVwAz3+7xABrW2mZZ8OrTkJu5gI/6sd4Gc8NHsMt3SBh2IXkD +SBPjaTH0pMQXaPVb7kYo0Z0ugjonpyLZHL3vlegIYaYttkWok9ovfPfRvPQ84Ti Q6X9UPmxGHb95qiZubLuNyPHgJlFkHlUqqCt0ZcKVh9bBW2TVR1GaTR3OAmb5VY= =eQds -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----