Report says Canada’s Pacific ports are open to traffickers

Part of the problem, the paper argues, is that no one is clearly in charge. Responsibility for port security is split among the port authorities, the CBSA, the RCMP and Transport Canada, with no single body accountable for the system. The federal government disbanded the Ports Canada Police, the country’s dedicated ports force, in 1997, according to German’s report. The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority ended its funding for an RCMP-led waterfront enforcement unit in 2015.