Canada’s customs agents did not seize any contraband by rail over a four-year period before 2022, federal records show.
“The CBSA [Canada Border Services Agency] did not seize any illegal items from train cars for the years 2018 to 2021 inclusively,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Adam Chambers last November, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The inquiry had asked for the number of trains the CBSA “physically inspected” since 2018, and of those inspected, “how many contained illegal items.”
A search for contraband by rail saw that the agency confiscated $1.8 million worth of smuggled cigarettes, beer and liquor by Nov. 28 of 2022. A shipment of 780 knives was also seized….