Register Guns/now Passport Needed

[larryours]

When I first started hunting in Canada around 16 years ago, all you needed then(if asked) at Customs was a valid Drivers License(for photo I.D.) Social Secuity Card, birth certificate.
Afew year ago, register your Firearm at U.S. side, then later register at Canadian side, and pay $50. Can. fee suposed to be good for one year if same rifle, last year, even though had receipt from previous year, would't expire untill day after return to States(went a week earlier, this year) Still had to pay another $25. Can., which same type receipt says "Expires 1 year from date of issuance, even though I had a valid receipt, Can. Customs said their Legis. had change and I'd have to pay the new fee which was lesser than previous, and they give me another same receipt expires whin 1 year. Now by Dec. 2006, a passport is needed to
to enter Canada. ( which will run about $100.) Even though I love bear hunting in Canada, and the people.these new resitrictive red tape are
to the point of where my hunting buddy and I are ready to throw in the towel and hunt here in the U.S.. ( and we wouldn't have to drive 12-16 hours along with the high rate of gas, around 7-8 dollars for a gallon, averaging out from liters, this past Sept.)So we might make a Spring bear hunt in Quebec this Spring, 2006 and then hunt here in the States from now on. I reckon the Canadian Goverment don't want our hunting business or money.