From what I hear, its a good job you are in Canada, not Australia - if they found that there you would be put in clink for ever and a day ! I once got arrested, getting off a cruise ship at Darwin for a stroll around the town, and they found an apple in my pocket. I had to grovel and sit and listen to a lecture for 10 minutes before the apple went into an incinerator, and I was allowed on my way !
And then there was the time when I came home from Thailand with two large boxes of orchids - and I mean large- each was a bit too big for the usual luggage trolley and I had a block of paperwork for the CITES, phytosanitary certificates, you name it, on that zig-zag perforated at the edges paper, about 14 inches wide, and the block was about one and half inches thick ; five copies of everything, and one permit for each orchid perhaps ? Got to customs in the UK airport, walked into the red channel - no-one there. Banged on the desk, banged on the windows, eventually gave up and walked out to find my taxi waiting...... Posted off the pink copies to Kew or whatever it was ( green should have been kept by customs) , yellow went to the Govt department, white for me - can't remember what the fifth was for ... never heard anything more from anyone.
What a bureaucratic nonsense !






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