Thank you very much.
Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee, thank you very much for inviting Canada Border Services Agency to participate in this hearing. My name is Bonnie Glancy, and I am the director of intelligence for Canada Border Services in the greater Toronto area.
Although this committee is focused on organized crime, I'd like to take a moment to provide a brief overview of the greater Toronto area region, which I will refer to as the GTA.
This region is responsible for fulfilling the CBSA mandate at over 80 service locations, sufferance warehouses, and ports of entry. These locations range in size from small marinas to the largest and busiest airport in Canada. These locations cover all modes of transportation: air, land, rail, postal and courier, and marine.
Approximately 2,300 employees in the region are responsible for administering over 90 different acts, regulations, and international agreements regarding the movement of goods and people into Canada. Geographically speaking the GTA region ranges from Georgian Bay in the north, from Owen Sound to Parry Sound, and to Lake Ontario in the south from Mississauga to just west of Cobourg.