MIM Notes 186 May 15 1999

MIM Notes kept out of Canada

Windsor, Ontario, CANADA -- On March 29, Canadian border officials 
denied MIM Notes entry into Canada. A car with a bundle of MIM 
Notes in the trunk did not make it across the border to pass from 
Detroit to Buffalo and instead had to drive down through Ohio.

Despite bragging about the "freest border in the world," the 
United $tates and Canada both exert tight controls. Canadian 
authorities always check the license plate of the car crossing the 
border through their computer system--Orwell-style. The driver of 
a particular car has been searched upon every entry into Canada.

MIM Notes is free to anyone who wants a copy. It is available by 
subscription to people who want to make sure they get every issue 
and who do not want to take their chances getting it free. In the 
top right corner of the MIM Notes it is always marked free. Border 
officials know this from reading copies.

On this particular occasion, border authorities objected to MIM 
Theory as well saying it fell under import/export laws; even 
though MIM had no plan to leave the publication in Canada and 
surely Canada was dealing a blow to "free speech" and association 
by attacking an obviously non-profit venture.

MIM does not oppose the concept of free trade. We merely point out 
that it cannot exist until communism. Despite much ballyhoo, the 
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) did not in fact 
eliminate governmental trade barriers between the United $tates 
and Canada.