The other factor we sometimes find with border crossings is that people, mainly truck drivers, will come to the border on the American side, and they'll go to their CPIC or to their American system for identifying people who have a criminal background. It could be that they smoked a joint in 1978 and were given a warning. Well, that gets into the American system and they are told, with their rig, an 18-wheeler, which is loaded, “I'm sorry, but you can't get into the United States because you're on the Canadian CPIC as being involved in....”
I knew a guy who stole a bicycle when he was 17 years old. This was on CPIC, and he was denied going into the States until he got a pardon.
It's a very complicated process, and it is certainly to the disadvantage of a lot of Canadians. With our border information on our side, if that person had had a pardon, would he still be on CPIC in terms of having a criminal record?