Thank you for that opportunity.
The agency is responsible for refusing entry up front to foreign nationals who are known or suspected terrorists. Also, a permanent resident or foreign national may be found inadmissible for reasons of terrorist associations, under section 34 of IRPA, if they've engaged in or there are reasonable grounds to believe that they may engage in terrorism.
If they have entered the country and they are found to have terrorist associations, then the CBSA's removals program prioritizes the removal of high-risk persons in Canada who pose a threat to national security. They are the number one priority for removal.
Key CBSA programs that support the identification and removal of terrorists would include screening up front, which I've spoken about; international operations, that is, information collected by our liaison officers overseas in some 49 countries; and our targeting program, which is based on data analysis of information on passengers on inbound flights to Canada. There's, of course, the port of entry examination, and then there's our removals program.
At every point of the travel continuum, there's a different layer of activity on the part of CBSA.