Well I'm done with Canada forever.

Let me start by saying that I have crossed into Canada many times. Once a month if not more. Been more times than I could even begin to count. But never again, last night at the Landsdowne, ON port (I-81) I was treated like a complete criminal, had my truck tossed and all my electronic devices gone through.
I get to the check point and the lady there starts asking me all these strange questions, questions I've never been asked like "what company did I last work for" and "why I never crossed with them" and "what my next load was and why had I never crossed here before". I answered them honestly and she made me park. Then things got bad.

The male officer searched me, including my wallet then told me to sit down. He then went out to my truck and searched it completely. When I went back to it later everything was a mess, it was like the movies after a police search. My bed was askew, my mattress cover and sheets were off, my computer bag and ps4 case were on the ground and my rugs were all pulled up. Chargers, food, my shower bad and all its contents were everywhere.

I didn't know this at the time because they made me sit, I couldn't stand, in the office. They wouldn't even let me pee. Then he comes back in with both my cellphones, my kindle and my laptop. He makes me give him my code to my laptop and searches through it. He read all my text messages and viewed all my pictures. He found a picture of all my guns on my phone then gives me a lecture on Canadian gun laws. He repeatedly asked if I had a concealed carry permit and basically didn't seem to like that I was a gun owner.

Point is this, I get that countries have laws but I have never caused any trouble in Canada. I'm simply a working man trying to deliver a load. If the price for that is to be made a criminal have my privacy and basic human dignity violated then it's a price I refuse to pay. Tomorrow when I cross I will cut up my fastcard and I will inform my company today that I will never cross the border again. And if the price that I pay for that is my job then I will pay it. I will never again be in that helpless of a position. I will never again lose my privacy, have my truck tossed and be treated like scum. I am done, completely and forever with Canada. I don't understand the need for this and I don't need to feel this way again. I am homicidal with my rage today, I honestly can't remember ever being this angry. I don't need this and all I want is to get back to the states, back to where I have some basic rights.

 

I don't even know what my options were. Anyone know what would have happened if I refused to give up my password?

 

I don't doubt you but I've been searched many times by the U.S and they have always been quick and thorough and have never gone through my phone. I have no problem with that but going through my phone and tearing my truck up is ridiculous. I won't have that happen again. It's like all your stuff, all the things you paid money for don't matter at all to them.

 

I read that, been reading since I've been at the customer. I understand that no laws were violated but to me there is a question of right and wrong. Regardless, I refuse to play anymore. I had no idea that you were basically open game when you crossed the border. I mean looking at the law they can all but summarily execute you.

 

I think I could live with my phones and laptop being searched. I wouldn't like it but I would just clear everything out before I crossed but I'm not going to have my truck tossed and my stuff treated like that again.