The reallity of a Nexus Card is that you are already pre-approved to go through the border. If they are grilling you as a Nexus card, they suspect you of doing something.
As for the North guys grilling us more in the north, traditionally it has been through Canada that most forged passports pass through on. Canada's multiculturalism is to blame. Just not white people anymore... So if you are coloured, chances are you are being sterotyped by those custom agents....
Canada is a rich country in mineral resources, but depend on companies to forge the way into the wilderness to find them. Giving those companies immense profits from the mineral wealth, with little taken back for the Canadian people even through taxes.
The problem with Canada is that its a large country with little population. Its not an entrepreneur country. as most ideals for marketing go south to the states. Also there is the brain drain of university graduates to the states. Canada also has a large infrastructure to maintain, which is only getting worse.
Then there is the money drain the states (ie snowbirds). So Canadians spend an entire lifetime of savings in the states and not in Canada, all because they don't like the cold.
Energy resource are awesome with tar-sands and other oil patches. When a high-school girl can come up with solutions to tar-sand pollution; shows how much care the oil industy cares about pollution, and lack of Canadian entreperneurship is in Canada, because some university student could of come up with the same solution 30 years ago. It just shows how backward our country is. Where the priority is? Not with being Canadian and supporting Canada overall. It about your pocket book and what serves the individuals' bank account.
Its about companies maximizing their profits. One way is to pollute the environment. The inspector of a plant comes in and the employees turn on the environmental saving shit, whent he inspector leaves the employees turn off the enviro stuff; and save on money making more profit for the company. If you want a job you keep your mouth shut.
In the last 30 years companies have been slowly getting rid of union workers with high wages and benefits. First by cutting benifits, and by eliminating union jobs, the same job has to be preformed, but the actual person doing that job gets paid less.
Contract work for goverments in fact is more expensive then civil employees. First off the company makes a profit and secondly the employee doing the job does not get benifts and gets paid a lower wage. The reality is the company is making the money. So instead of 1 employee with benefits, you have a company with 1 employee with owner making most of the money. In the long run this cost the government more in the long run, but it cost less in the first few year after getting rid of the union employee and that persons benefits. Also the work of the contractor is always suspect or not up to standard. The reason it is more expensive in the long run is that now government is paying 2 people, the owner and the new lower wage worker for the same job.
Another reason unions are failing is due to the limits of the right to strike due to, you guess it "essential service". Which means governments, when there is a real problem can ignore it, no matter what the union employees say. Fuck which really gets me mad, as they are listening to the needs of aborignals and their land claims....or geeze another reason Canada should be considered a poor country....
Another thing is work ethic.... nobody wants to be a slave.... working long hours doing shit work at a high pace, with little pay like an McDonalds employee.
Mostly the wealth goes to the 1%ters....
