Things have changed a bit over the last several years; I'd go with whatever was officially documented today and get a printout of it and all on-line instructions for it. And even though an individual guard can make his own call on something serious, they are not always correct or consistent either.
I remember being called on an importation form at a crossing by a US border guard once which I actually had received by mail from the US Embassy. He said it couldn't exist because it was the wrong color for that sort of form. After a bit of back-and-forth, he told me to stand back, then disappeared to talk to someone for 10 minutes. He came back in a sour mood and essentially told me to get the hell through.
Long time later on the Cdn side I got a set of questions which clearly showed the US and Cdn agents were exchanging information between their 2 different DROS computer systems too.
All sorts of data is floating around out there on everybody these days, and dollars to doughnuts the NSA has nearly everything CSIS has on their files.
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