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The Government of Canada announced it is investing $1.3 billion to bolster security at the border and strengthen the immigration system.

This includes $667.5M for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, $355.4M for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), $180M over 6 years for the Communications Security Establishment, $77.7M for Health Canada, and $20M over five years for Public Safety Canada.

The Government will be adding new and expanded detection capacity and deploying new canine teams to better detect illegal drugs and other threats such as guns and gun parts at border entries, which will also contribute to cutting cargo container processing time.

A new legislative requirement will also expressly obligate port owners and operators to provide CBSA, free of charge, with the space and facilities it needs to conduct export inspections, just as they do for imports.

Several new measures will also aim at improving the rate of removals of inadmissible people from Canada, and reduce existing immigration enforcement inventories.

Link: Government of Canada’s Border Plan