A cat named Louis Vuitton regularly defies U.S-Canadian border policy:
On Zero Avenue in South Surrey, B.C. lives a cat without a care in the world, and a supercilious name to match.
Louis Vuitton has become a local legend for doing with ease what most humans wouldn’t dare.
Each day, he leaps back and forth across a narrow ditch that sits smack dab on the Canada-U.S. border.
“He hasn’t always been such a rebel, but he is extremely friendly,” Deb Tate, Louis’ owner, told As It Happens host Nil Koksal.
He just loves people, says Tate, and he doesn’t care what side of the border they’re on.
“He will walk up, greet people, get his pats and belly rubs and then continue on when he’s done.”
See Kayla McLean, No passport, no problem. Meet the border-hopping cat who comes and goes as he pleases (‘This free-spirited feline has gone viral for casually hopping back and forth over the Canada-U.S border’), CBC Radio, March 19, 2026.
On the serious matter of people, credit where credit is due: no living American has done more — or could have done more — to harm relations with our friendly neighbor to the north than Donald J. Trump.
The very idea of bad relations with Canada was once so silly that Matt Stone and Trey Parker made it the intentionally absurd plot of their movie Bigger, Longer & Uncut (“When Eric Cartman and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame”):