Joe wrote:

They do if the said vessel unloads anything or tie to any Canada dock.
You are sadly misinformed about the laws that protect you as a seaman.
The port state may restrict a seaman from leaving the vessel but has
absolutely no say in who may sail aboard the vessel of another flag state.

The flag on a ship means something, just as it does on an embassy building.

First thing I was tought at a young seaman is when your in a forien
land you are held to thier laws.

Yes, Joe, and you should remember that to go ashore in a foreign country
you must hold a "shore pass" issued by the immigration agency of that
country. If that country chooses not to issue a pass the seaman must
remain aboard the vessel. That country, however, has no authority
whatsoever to say who may or may not serve aboard that vessel.

We should just ban any American ferries from landing in Canada or from
coming from Canada and kill off all money they make from our ships,
that will change thier tune in a heartbeat. Still they have a right to
make laws that apply to landing in Canada.

Yes, Joe, they can make all the laws they want about who can land. They
cannot make any law saying who can work on an American ship. The US Navy
was founded to stop that sort of thinking.

Just like we do not allow terrorist types on any ship that docks here
in America. We now check the crew manifest of every ship that unloads
anything

We have no authority to allow or disallow anyone to sail aboard a
foreign flag vessel. We may arrest them if they are fugitives wanted by
this or another country with whom we have a treaty that allows such
arrests, or we may prohibit them from leaving the vessel while it is
alongside. We have no right under international law to say who can or
cannot sail aboard the ship. We check the manifests to see what the
cargo is, we check the crew list to see if there is anyone aboard who is
"wanted" or who does not meet our standards to be granted shore leave.
If they are not otherwise eligible for permission to visit the US they
can't leave the ship in the US but we have no authority to deny them
employment on their ship.

You really need to take a high school social studies course and learn
something about history and the rights that a lot of Americans died to
defend. You seem awfully casual about trashing your own rights ...

Rick