Yes, of course. It would be a pleasure.
Starting with the initial training at Rigaud for border services officers, an extensive number of training routines and repetitions occur to ensure that people are very aware of the different types of legislation and also the operational practice of searching different types of vessels, commercial motor vehicles, aircraft or air cargo, etc. The officers in the CBSA are exceptionally trained, extremely dedicated and very determined in their execution of these types of tasks.
Specifically on your question on marine vessels, there is a very specific rummaging course that officers will attend. It gives them great expertise and awareness of vessels, patterns, methods of concealment and deep concealment, but also some of the hidden areas like bulkheads and tiller flats and the different areas of a vessel that most people may not deem to be an area where you might try to smuggle different types of contraband or illegally fished or harvested products. There is extensive training.
In addition to that, to reinforce the expertise and the awareness of officers, we issue different types of operational bulletins to ensure that frontline officers are attuned to the different types of evolving threats and trends, even if they are economically dependent. Should we be trying to identify a certain type of illegally fished-abroad product, the bulletins would include what it looks like and how to identify it, and we'd also be aligning that with the different types of expertise in terms of where you could potentially deep-conceal that on a commercial vessel.
Those are the different types of integrated training that we offer our officers. Again, I think our officers are world-class in that regard and in many different regards. BSOs are at the forefront of protecting our fisheries and oceans against different types of illegal, unregulated or threatening products coming into our Canadian economy and wildlife.