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Voted in Gov't officials tend to make new laws and regulations that justify their political existance. How else are they going to make news involving their "importance" without radically affecting the small and large business proprietors. Nowadays if you want a small business in Canada, GO REALLY BIG, and within one to two years, YOU WILL BE small. Regardless, I don't find the Canadian side Immigration to be nearly as obstinantly difficult as the US side. We have to do MORE to entice our US counterparts to this country, because whatever we've been doing up until now, ISN'T WORKING! Make it cheaper, and they will tell their friends, and then they will come. We cannot gouge the few that attend, but many at a cheaper price is a GREAT enticement...Good Luck, Canada.
Northern Border Tougher to Cross
By Mike Terrell on February 6, 2007
If you don’t think the new travel rules for Canadian border crossings aren’t having an effect you don’t have to look much further than the Heartland. Searchmont Resort, which sits just above Michigan near Sault Ste. Marie, used to rely heavily on Michigan and Chicagoland skiers and riders for business.
In the 1990s, than owner Jim Helsinga, a Sault Ste. Marie businessman, claimed that 40 to 50-percent of the roughly 100,000 ski area visits they had per winter came from Michigan and Chicago. Today, Searchmont, under new Canadian ownership, isn’t spending a dime to advertise in the Lower 48. Higher gas prices, a lower American dollar value compared to the Canadian dollar, longer lines to cross the border, and now the new passport requirements have taken their toll. It used to be so simple. A few hundred Traverse City, Michigan, skiers and riders, where I live just three hours below Sault Ste. Marie, used to routinely head up to Searchmont for a winter getaway every season. Now few, if any, make the trip.
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