Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Federal Auditor Questions Border Practices

The federal Auditor-General says some of the controls put in place at the border to keep people from entering Canada illegally aren't always working.

Michael Ferguson, in his fall report, says the while the Canadian Border Services Agency has made significant progress in some of its efforts to detect high-risk travelers, it often does not get the information it needs to identify those travelers before they arrive in Canada.”

Ferguson says even when the agency has had the information, the controls don’t always work.