On a daily basis, 5,600 agency officers work at various ports of entry. Every day, 27,000 commercial shipments cross the border; 9,000 of them arrive through the airports and 5,400 arrive by sea, in containers. Last year, the agency processed more than 14.2 million commercial shipment declarations and carried out over 237,000 inspections.
This bill will be included in the Border Services Agency's enforcement priorities. Based on the figures I just shared with you, we can say that this is already part of our reality. We are confident that, by relying on a solid training program and the rights holders' expertise, we will be able to take measures, detain the shipments we deem suspicious and pass on to our RCMP colleagues the shipments that we feel represent a danger to the health and safety of Canadians.