Tourism Victoria has been putting up billboards in downtown Vancouver inviting us city folk to spend some quality time in B.C.'s capitol city. The signs feature the slogan "No Passport Required". Those words may change the minds of some local travellers who would otherwise be heading to Washington or Oregon, but if BC Ferries CEO David Hahn has his way, everybody's favourite boatride to Vancouver Island will be more of a hassle than the traffic jam at the border.
Hahn, another southern-fried pinhead who doesn't have to be sold on the "benefits" of deep integration with America's War on Terror (tm), wants random checks on vehicles and passengers boarding BC Ferries, with those checks being ramped up at "increased threat levels" - which will make it an orange, purple, or teal delay of 3 hours for the next sailing to Swartz Bay.
It may not take a passport for this page to go to Victoria, but this page makes regular trips to Seattle without being searched and harassed either. I'm not seeing a difference.
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