Justice committee  Thank you. I'd like to thank the committee for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss CBSA's role in relation to Bill S-9. Before I talk about the bill, I would like to take a moment to talk about CBSA's role in managing the border as well as the services we prov

Justice committee  We collect duties on importation of goods, yes.

Justice committee  It's implied in terms of our management of the border. I didn't explicitly state it, but it's part of our mandate.

Justice committee  We don't actually gather intelligence. We use intelligence that we get from those who are better equipped to gather it. We work in partnership with our law enforcement partners, such as CSIS and the RCMP, who are the main intelligence gatherers, if you want. We use that type of i

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  “Law enforcement partners”, sorry.

Justice committee  I used “powers”?

Justice committee  That would be correct.

Justice committee  No, that would be correct.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Did you want to comment, Mr. Borland?

Justice committee  Do you mean if we suspect theft? If I am told that the container has oranges in it, not a car, and when I examine it, I find a car, then I am suspicious.Then I have to call the local police or the RCMP and tell them that I think I have found a stolen vehicle. At that point, I ha

Justice committee  We could get access to a vehicle if, by chance, when we are looking at an export declaration, we see that the declaration is inaccurate in some administrative way. If the declaration says that a car is in the container and we find a car in the container with a serial number tha

Justice committee  There is no expectation at this point to proceed to hire new resources or FTs to do this work. That said, part of the reason we need this legislation is that we are so limited in what we can do, specifically with regard to stolen vehicles, to really understand the magnitude of

Justice committee  I'm not saying they would necessarily be coming from Windsor. For example, when we did the probe, during a six-month period we did a focused effort of having our existing staff focus in the port of Halifax and Montreal with our law enforcement partner. We might do another stint o