i have had a lovely experience with the canadian border guards last year at the 1000 island bridge crossing. it seems the agent took the length of barrel limit on my gun and interpited it wrong. the regulation said something about nothing less than 18 in and he thought it had to be exactly 18 inches. we all had 26 inch barrels. he told me to go back over the crossing and get a hotel for the night and talk to a supervisor the next day. i kept my cool and demanded a copy of the regulation. i then pointed some things out to him and he then made a call to another boarder crossing. why he just didnt do that in the first place is beyond me. i really think he was just stupid and not busting my hump. if you have any guns you will have to go inside and pay that stupid fee! i will avoid hunting there for a while! you also have to be careful of other traffic violations like careless or wreckless from what i was told. i think only the acting stupidvisor at the shift can o.k. a crossing. if i were you i would get things straightened out now! in your case it would probably help that you dont use your vehicle for the trip and tell them you have no plans on driving in there country at all. just give them alot of yes sirs and no sirs they love that stuff!