[Closed] Canadian boot checks

Scrub them clean. I do this with boots (and tyres) whenever I'm walking or riding somewhere other than my locale. Too many risks of transmitting tree disease.

Yeah, I've cleaned them but I got a bit anal about it for Oz and was bleaching stuff, etc. Probably overkill for Canda though...

don't remember ever having a boot check going into canada.

Never had mine checked going into canada, although I suppose it depends where you’re flying from.
I come from uk.

Nope, they don't. But if you answer yes to "have you been on a farm and do you intend to go to a farm in Canada", they may pull you aside.

The juxtaposition in Oz always gives me a wry chuckle. This is a country which has introduced intentionally introduced mice, rats, cats, rabbits, myxamatosis, foxes, dogs, beetles and toads, all of which have systematically destroyed the native fauna and... you want to check that I haven't brought some foreign dog poo? Alrighty!

I'd imagine Canadian immigration will always check your boot. Make sure the hull is super clean and you've taken any drugs oot.

The juxtaposition in Oz always gives me a wry chuckle. This is a country which has introduced intentionally introduced mice, rats, cats, rabbits, myxamatosis, foxes, dogs, beetles and toads, all of which have systematically destroyed the native fauna and… you want to check that I haven’t brought some foreign dog poo? Alrighty!

We've lost or are losing our ash trees our elm trees and our larches. Knotweed, hogweed and himalayan Balsam are rampant in parts. Grey squirrels out compete reds, signal crayfish can decimate rivers. Mink are evil bastards.

Perhaps we could learn from australias current attitude.

As scotroutes says you should be cleaning your boots, your bike and your boats if you are moving about the country let alone getting stroppy about cleaning your boots to go abroad.

OP. I don't recall any inspection of footwear when going to Canada.

he juxtaposition in Oz always gives me a wry chuckle. This is a country which has introduced intentionally introduced mice, rats, cats, rabbits, myxamatosis, foxes, dogs, beetles and toads, all of which have systematically destroyed the native fauna and… you want to check that I haven’t brought some foreign dog poo? Alrighty!

the blight of Didymo in the NZ backcountry is awful, all because some dirty kayaker/canoer brought it over in a boat.

As scotroutes says you should be cleaning your boots, your bike and your boats if you are moving about the country let alone getting stroppy about cleaning your boots to go abroad.

My post wasn't intended to come off as stroppy, as I said I was planning to clean them anyway but was just wondering how extreme to go with it - I spent quite a while getting 2 pairs pristine for going to Oz as I knew they'd be checked, but thought that might be overkill for this trip.

Thanks to all who answered the question 😉

I have had such a check at Boston Logan when it was established that I was involved with a farm.

Canadian boot checks?

My post wasn’t intended to come off as stroppy, as I said I was planning to clean them anyway but was just wondering how extreme to go with it – I spent quite a while getting 2 pairs pristine for going to Oz as I knew they’d be checked, but thought that might be overkill for this trip.

Don't worry OP. I read your post right to the end. it wasn't aimed at you in the slightest!

As above if you answer yes to going on to or coming from a farm you will be pulled aside.

As scotroutes says you should be cleaning your boots, your bike and your boats if you are moving about the country let alone getting stroppy about cleaning your boots to go abroad.

Pretty pointless when it comes to any of the issues you mentioned in the first part of your post, as the pathogens are airborne, or the problems revolve around alien animal and plant species deliberately introduced by man, and reproduce in water or have seeds that spread easily by wind or water.
Ash dieback isn’t proving to be as big an issue as was first thought, because British Ash trees are genetically different to European Ash, which is suffering.
There is another pathogen affecting continental plantlife which is carried by froghoppers, or cuckoo-spit insects, which could be a real threat, but the adult phase is winged, so cleaning your boots and tyres, completely pointless again.

Pretty pointless when it comes to any of the issues you mentioned in the first part of your post, as the pathogens are airborne, or the problems revolve around alien animal and plant species deliberately introduced by man, and reproduce in water or have seeds that spread easily by wind or water.

The list wasn't meant to be a list wasn't a list of things what have been caused by dirty boots. I'd probably notice a mink holding on to my laces and I'm an idiot.

Pro-tip, dont bother cleaning your boots for Oz, I didn't and they cleaned them for me.

Ash die back? Guy on the radio forecasting 95% die back only last week

Forestry Commission don't care and as the managing agency for the plant health people give the contractors and forestry owners an easy pass for biosecurity during tree removals for various diseases

I’d imagine Canadian immigration will always check your boot. Make sure the hull is super clean and you’ve taken any drugs oot.

Gem in the middle of all this - well played sir! (the pic too but, y'know, bindun biden)

Hit Canadian customs yesterday - nothing whatsoever about that - electronic declaration and sailed past customs in 30 seconds.

Ash die back? Guy on the radio forecasting 95% die back only last week

Really? Mixed messages? ‘Experts’ were forecasting that sort of dieback several years ago, then it was being reported that U.K. dieback wouldn’t be anything like on the Continent due to research into the DNA of British Ash trees showing that they were a different strain, and a lot more resilient to the disease, so dieback wouldn’t be anything like as bad as forecasted.
So, what are we supposed to believe?

There's also Phytophthora Ramorum,which affects Larch and is spreading