What’s the most illegal thing you’ve done?
For me, it was eons ago.. 13 years ago my ex-wifes youth leader from their church was part of something bigger. A member of their church had purchased a large piece of land in Canada north of Thunder Bay in logging territory. It was an old resort (cabins) that had burnt down in a fire. It took down all of the cabins except the main lodge. He got it at a good price and had plans of turning it into a youth retreat. So this guy then asks the youth pastor if there's anyone part of the church that wants to be a part of making it new. If they help, they'd get a piece of the profits of said youth retreat. I'm in. It was over the summer and I could spare a few weeks of work going up there and helping out!
So, girlfriend and myself go up there following a 12 person van + enclosed trailer. This is where things start to go wrong. So.. We get to the border and van makes it through no issues. I get to the border window guy asks me what my business is going to be in Canada. Tell them: hey, going up to start cleanup on this old land that this church bought. Gonna build some stuff etc. This is where things go wrong. They look through my car see my drills, saws, tool belt, etc. They tell me to pull the car over and we need to go inside. They then pull the van over (which had already made it past check point) and have them pull over also. We got detained for 7 hours while they asked the youth leader a million questions. They ended up getting the address for the place and told us we could proceed across but we could not work (since we had no workers visa’s even though our time was “donated”). So, we get up there. We take 2 days off at which point it’s like fk this.. we’re 5 hours down this logging road, there’s no way they are going to come check on us. Fast forward 3 weeks. Time for the GF and I to pack it up and head home. We make it across the border and get home. Youth leader still up there for another few months. He finally makes it home (much earlier than anticipated). And he calls a meeting at his place. Well, long story short, they ended up sending some police to the area we were working and caught the people who stayed still working (as we intended lol). He got a letter from the Canadian authorities that we were to not cross into Canada for a year..
TL;DR:
Was kicked out of Canada for one year for working. They said we were taking jobs away from Canadians. haha
