Transport committee  If you want to know whether we are ensuring that security measures are in place to facilitate the movement of goods at the border, I would say that our procedures are very similar. For example, CBSA officers are posted at the targeting centre of our colleagues from the U.S. Custo

Transport committee  Nothing leads me to believe that inspections are not conducted thoroughly.

Transport committee  I will try to explain it to you. We're essentially talking about a free trade agreement. That helps reduce tariffs on commercial imports. When it comes to the audit procedure, a free trade agreement changes nothing. If the CBSA has reasons to believe that a shipment could repres

Transport committee  I could talk to you about border procedures, which are highly harmonized. As for security standards in transportation, that falls more within the purview of Transport Canada than of the Canada Border Services Agency. As we have already said about border procedures, many programs

Transport committee  I would say one of the barriers is that when you conduct pre-clearance activities, you want to ensure that whatever is pre-cleared is under control until it makes it to the border so that if a shipment is deemed customs-cleared, there is no possibility of introducing contraband i

Transport committee  We don't necessarily have forecasts. We leverage years of information to be able to forecast periods during the year when we can expect to get an increase in volumes. We don't get advance information, but based on the data we have, we are able to predict those busy periods.

Transport committee  We're managing risk. When I say we're managing risk, we want to focus on what we consider to be high risk and not spend a lot of time on low risk. That's our approach. We have staffing flexibility and we ramp up ahead of those busy periods. We might expect to have a container shi

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. The pilot, as you mentioned, was run for a few months. Yes, we were able to gather valuable information, and in fact that information led to the new pre-clearance agreement whereby both the CBSA and the U.S. CBP will have the ability to pre-clear peop

Transport committee  Madam Chair, good morning. Thank you for having us this morning. We have provided a deck, and I plan to go over the deck quickly. Then we'll welcome all the questions you may have. It's a pleasure to be here. Essentially the Canada Border Services Agency is responsible to provi

Public Safety committee  Right now, people who require their travel history have an ability to make an ATIP request to the CBSA, and we will provide that travel history. What you raise is whether there is a better way to do this than to process paper. It's something that we've started to discuss internal

Public Safety committee  My discussion with colleagues was that if you are able to go on the CRA website and query your own file, I think there is a way maybe to be able to have that information available when somebody requests it.

Public Safety committee  The Customs Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act allow the agency to share information in the case of a criminal investigation. Both of those acts already have provisions in that regard. They allow for the sharing of information, whether with a Canadian organization

Public Safety committee  Unfortunately, I can't comment on the legislative provisions applicable to those two organizations, but I would imagine they have something similar to what the agency has.

Public Safety committee  If there are adjustments to the Canadian passport, as an example, where right now it's male/female, and eventually an x, then we will adjust the paramètres under which we share the information with the U.S. So it would be essentially a system fix. Am I right in saying that?

Public Safety committee  I believe so, because they're sending back what they've collected. In some instances, your country of birth is not identified on your passport. Essentially it's what is collected by the U.S. border services officer that is sent back to Canada.