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Public Safety committee The number of passengers pre-cleared has been growing at the same rate as passengers headed to the U.S. That follows economic changes. The value of the dollar has a big effect. It tends to be quite responsive to economic factors such as those, but year on year there has been stea
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen
Public Safety committee I can't give you an exact number.
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen
Public Safety committee The government is concerned about the cost of travel, air travel in particular. That isn't specifically related to pre-clearance, though. That's pretty much a separate issue.
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen
Public Safety committee Just to break it down, there are two fundamental kinds of costs. There's the infrastructure costs, and that's for building equipment and counters and that kind of stuff. All facilities have in the past paid for those, and all facilities in the future will continue to have to pay
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen
Public Safety committee For the Gordie Howe International Bridge, the planning right now that's going forward is for the customs to be at the typical places, so classic clearance as opposed to pre-clearance.
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen
Public Safety committee That's not to say that in the future you couldn't do cargo pre-clearance. Right now, the way it's being set up is with the U.S. customs plaza on the Canadian side and the Canadian customs plaza on the U.S. side, which is your standard set-up for classic clearance.
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen
Public Safety committee There was a question asked earlier about why we aren't pushing ahead with cargo pre-clearance now. Besides the fact that the agreement isn't in force yet, the other issue is, of course, that we have to learn how to do cargo pre-clearance. We don't have the decades of experience t
May 8th, 2017Committee meeting
Tom Oommen