A number of Canada’s Pacific ports are “under-secured” and have inspection gaps that can be exploited by criminals and foreign threats, according to a report by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
The recently released report describes specific security concerns at the Vancouver and Prince Rupert ports as well as the waters and remote landing areas off western Vancouver Island, and urges Ottawa to boost enforcement.
In particular, Frontier centre senior fellow and report author Scott McGregor, a former Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator and intelligence adviser to the RCMP, said that Canada’s Pacific port system has a broad outbound cargo inspection gap, citing audit findings that say exports, outbound vessels, and outbound crews are not systematically inspected….