Mr. Chair, honourable members of the committee, thank you very much for inviting me to participate in today's hearing.
I represent the Canada Border Services Agency, Regional Intelligence Division of Quebec. My name is Angelo De Riggi.
For the Border Services Agency, the Quebec region is the second largest in terms of size and has an 813-kilometre border with the U.S., the longest shared border in Canada.
The Canada Border Services Agency is responsible for securing Canada's borders at our ports of entry, which consist of 32 land border crossings, 25 airports—including three international airports—nine marine ports, six railroad stations and five inland customs offices.
Currently, there are approximately 2,400 employees working for the CBSA in the region.
Each year, we process more than four million air passengers, six million road travellers and around two million commercial releases. Of these, we conduct nearly 600,000 examinations each year. Last year, CBSA and the Quebec region took nearly 16,000 enforcement actions in the travellers' field section resulting in 2,451 narcotic seizures.