Expired PR card will be sufficient. If you have other Canadian docs (driver's license, health card, whatever) will help to show that you are a factual resident (and more likely in compliance with the residency obligation). I assume your vehicle is Canadian plated, so that'll also help make the case.
Good luck, let others know how it goes.
Glad to know that it went smoothly for you. However, I can't help but wonder if you had a passport of a country that requires a visa to travel to Canada. Also, not to be racist or anything, but I think the probability of being sent to secondary increases exponentially if you're not the right ethnicity, gender or nationality.
If by this analogy with car insurance - where young males RIGHTFULLY AND LAWFULLY pay more than other groups based on the fact that they are demonstrably less safe drivers - you mean to imply that other ethnicities, genders and nationalities actually do present some higher risk (of something or other, I suppose?) - than yep, you are pretty much being racist, sexist and probably other things.
I really hate for this to be true. But I have lived on this planet for more than 3 decades and I think I have a general idea of how biased humans can be. I speak this as a brown immigrant living in America. On paper - racism is outlawed. On paper. That's the keyword. Hell, I've experienced more racism FIRST HAND in Canada that in Red states in the US. Now ofcourse, we're getting better as a society on the whole but we're not quite there yet fully. We humans are tribal species and so there will always be a general distrust of the "other".
This is true by my experience. I'm from a third world country that requires a visa to enter the US, Canada and other developed countries. I've gotten the "you've been selected for a random secondary examination" when I entered the US. That happened twice years ago. I haven't had that any more ever since. But you're right, there is bias indeed. I wouldn't be too worried if I was a US or British passport holder especially if I was white, but as a developing country passport holder I can't help being a bit paranoid at the border. I'm pretty sure border agents are trained to screen travelers based on their country of origin. Someone coming from a known terrorist nation may always get that "random" secondary.
I might be a bit pedantic here, but to me, that's all that 'satisfied' can possibly mean here – unless there are grounds otherwise, they have to be satisfied – because the matter on which they determine whether they are 'satisfied' (or on which they seem to have discretion) is, solely, whether you have a current PR status; so they are not allowed to say they are not satisfied if you have the current PR status.
I'm surprised you say that. As other people mentioned, the right to return is a legal right, not a privilege, on which a border officer does not have 'discretion', though they may do something else after your entry, such as initiating the cancellation process if you have not met the RO.
You don't need VoS. You can re-enter through a land border with an expired PR card / landing papers. If you do not meet RO, there is of course a chance you will be reported. However you will be allowed in regardless.
Someone who has an expired PR card and/or is not in compliance with the RO no longer has a 'valid' landing paper - but neither does it ever expire, once landed. After landing, the (signed, dated by CBSA) COPR is a record of landing. An historical document.
I believe the comment was precisely about not reporting the individual for non-compliance (in the specific case mentioned, almost no time in Canada); it was not about admitting the person.
Yes, you're being pedantic, that's exactly what I meant.
