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Public Safety committee You have 10 seconds. How would you like to use them, Mr. Van Popta?
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber
Public Safety committee Thank you for the question. No, we've not received an answer. You've identified a lot of the concerns that we brought up as well. If I could provide an example of port runners currently, if someone drives through the port, we have no ability to stop them. All we do is call the
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber
Public Safety committee I can't speak for them. I'm hoping my presence here will help with that awareness. We have significant gaps, I would say, in rail likely more than anywhere else. Currently, we don't really have rail examination capabilities at first port of arrival in Canada. Trains that, for i
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber
Public Safety committee Thank you for your question. Given the complexity of the issue, I'll respond in English, in order to be as clear as possible. In terms of whether the CBSA has the financial ability to hire a thousand more officers, that would not be for me to answer. What I can say is that the
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber
Public Safety committee The numbers that are being added, as far as we can tell, are covering attrition, so the actual overall number of frontline officers is not currently going up. We still have several ports that are running pretty much predominantly on overtime. In places like Windsor, it's almost u
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber
Public Safety committee Okay. I'll keep speaking. At the marine level, the overall reporting infrastructure is both insufficient and outdated. Once again, officers lack the necessary tools and authority to intervene, impacting their ability to intercept dangerous goods. Perhaps most glaring of all are
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber
Public Safety committee Thank you.
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber
Public Safety committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you here today. My name is Mark Weber. I'm the national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, which represents personnel working for the CBSA. CIU has a long h
February 1st, 2022Committee meeting
Mark Weber