240 cars ran the border in the last six months

Alain JolicoeurAlain Jolicoeur, (right) head of the Canada Border Services Agency, is in front of the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence and he is getting an A-1 grilling. Jolicoeur told committee members that, in the last six months, 240 cars ran a border crossing and the CBSA could do nothing about it.

“This is simply not acceptable,’ said Senator Larry Campbell (Liberal-British Columbia).

Jolicoeur said “the vast majority” of those cars that ran the border were the result of driver confusion — drivers believing they had completed the border crossing process or drivers who were confused by or misunderstood the signs.

Campbell wasn’t buying it. “If you can’t read the signs at big border crossings, you’re coming in to do something.”

Nonetheless, Jolicoeur tried to convince the committee that the situation was getting better: he said as many as 1,600 cars ran the border in the previous six month period.

 

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