The border agency's 14,000 employees manage the flow of millions of travellers and commercial shipments entering Canada annually. In September 2013, the Conservative public safety minister at the time agreed to issue a direction to the border agency concerning its sensitive investigative techniques, says the memo, prepared earlier this year for border agency president John Ossowski. In 2014, Public Safety Canada, in consultation with the border agency and the Justice Department, developed such a direction but it "was never formally issued," the memo adds. Louis-Carl Brissette Lesage, a spokesperson for the border agency, said the direction had not yet been issued. Ministerial direction forthcomingMary-Liz Power, a spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, said direction to the agency was forthcoming and would be made public.

Source: CBC News November 08, 2020 12:00 UTC