Mr. Chair, I'll try to answer the question at a very broad level. I'm not an expert in CBSA operations and I don't manage an operational team.
I do know there's a considerable amount of coordination on the ground between our regional directors general and our regional directors who manage most specific engagement. A lot of coordination takes place, not only with respect to the private sector entities that you're talking about, such as the rail yards, but also with police forces. That takes place not only in terms of enforcement action but also in the intelligence exchange and information sharing that enables those enforcement activities.
I would say that the heart of your question asks how these measures can best address organized crime and its exploitation of our transportation and trading networks for profit. I would point to section 97, which is being changed within the Customs Act to allow clarity with respect to the CBSA's access to goods that are destined for export, both in warehouses and on transporters' premises. Those authorities will allow early intervention from CBSA officers into those situations to identify goods such as stolen vehicles that are being loaded into railcars at switching yards before they're shipped out of the region to a port of entry to get onto a boat to go overseas. Those will be very important for us.
As part of Canada's national plan to address auto theft, as well as through investments made under the Canada border action plan, a number of new technologies are being acquired by the CBSA to allow a more nimble, mobile process to do imaging of railcars as they're moving through the system. Those will allow us to do the inspections in a more timely manner and will also reduce delays within the transportation system.
We're very cognizant of not wanting to disrupt legitimate flows but also of wanting to be able to have the technology to scan and intervene when necessary. That's enabled by the provisions in Bill C-12.