The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) does not have the staff to properly deal with Canada’s worsening auto-theft crisis, much of which hinges on adequate security at the nation’s ports and borders, says the national head of the union representing CBSA personnel.
“We’re having a really hard time, and when I say that we’re desperately understaffed, we are desperately understaffed,” Customs and Immigration Union president Mark Weber testified at a Feb. 26 meeting of the Public Safety and National Security Committee (SECU).