International Trade committee  Absolutely. Now, because a lot of these technologies that have been put in, the few officers we have left on the front line are taking all their time helping people fill out an app.

International Trade committee  Yes. It's everything we could do to help people get the app completed properly, so they can be allowed entry into Canada. It's an incredible drain on resources. It's a drain on time. The app is not the only problem. Our greatly reduced numbers over the years of officers working

International Trade committee  I'm not a public health expert.

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. Public health measures are not really our territory to comment on. What I can tell you is that the numbers provided to you earlier by the CBSA, which said that 99% of air travellers and 94% of land travellers have the app completed, are absolutely f

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today as a witness as part of your study on potential impacts of the ArriveCAN app on certain Canadian sectors. My name is Mark Weber. I'm the national presiden

Public Safety committee  I think some of those questions would be best directed at the CBSA, but I can answer some of that. I do know that there is coordination. Our integrated border task teams—our IBET teams—work together and do some work on patrolling the borders between ports. From our side, our me

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I heard the comments about increased technology and putting some of the money towards intelligence, which makes sense, but all of that doesn't achieve anything unless there's someone there to actually do the search, to open and look into the rail car. That's really wh

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  That's correct, yes.

Public Safety committee  To include in that patrolling between borders...?

Public Safety committee  I think you could safely be looking at an extra 1,000 or 1,500.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. That I'm aware of, no.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Definitely more people would be needed at land border crossings. As I said, we have borders that couldn't operate without overtime. For rail operations, where we really have no ability to do any kind of searches at our borders, I think the infrastructu

Public Safety committee  It's more human resources and building the infrastructure to allow us to do those searches. Currently, at most crossings in Canada, there is nothing there for us to do the search. We have to take the car off. It's more than just opening the door and having a peek inside. It's q

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, that is a role that we would like to participate in. We're not saying that we want to participate in it to the exclusion of the RCMP, but to participate more than we are doing now. Our involvement is very little, I could say, in marine mode. Even when we're invited ou