Border Infrastructure
Project Updates
Transportation Border Working
Group – November 7- 8 2012,
Ottawa, Ontario
CBSA Environment and Priorities
• Environment
• Project Status Update
• Challenges/Opportunities
• Priorities
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Environment
• Top 20 Ports of Entry (POE) process over 80% of the land border
traffic;
• Over the past decade CBSA has focused capital investment on the
large volume ports of entry with a focus on the Designated
Commercial Offices (DCO);
• The majority of the CBSA’s larger DCO ports have been, or are in
the process of being redeveloped and are functional and provide
adequate serviceability;
• This focus on the larger Port of Entry has severely limited the
funding available to address the critical rust-out issues facing a large
percentage of the small and remote ports in the Agency’s custodial
inventory.
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Project Status Update
Pacific Region - Cascade Gateway
• Under the Government of Canada’s Economic Action Plan the
commercial facilities at Pacific Highway and Abbotsford-Huntingdon
were modernized and expanded to enable the Agency to provide
effective and efficient service to the commercial trade community;
• 5 additional Primary Inspection Lanes (PIL) have been constructed
at the Pacific Highway Border crossing to increase inspection
capacity and reduce the instances of border wait times;
• As part of the PIL expansion at Pacific Highway, the NEXUS lane
has been re-aligned to provide easier access for Trusted Travellers;
• Investments designed to increase capacity and provide flexibility
across the 4 Cascade Gateway Port of Entry;
• Compliments investment made by the Province and State in the
Advanced Traveller Information System (ATIS)
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Project Status Update
Pacific Region - Cascade Gateway
Pacific Highway
US Port - Blaine
•Construction of new commercial examination facility;
•Facility opened March 2012
•Construction of 5 additional PIL Lanes and realignment of NEXUS Lane;
•New PIL Lanes opened May 2012
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Project Status Update
Pacific Region - Cascade Gateway
Abbotsford - Huntingdon
US Port - Sumas
•Doubled Commercial
Primary Inspection lanes;
•Provides increased
capacity to respond to
commercial traffic
entering through the
eastern most corridor of
the Cascade Gateway;
• Expanded commercial
examination inspection
capability
•Project completed March
2012
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Project Status Update
Pacific Region - Kingsgate
•Modernization and expansion of the port
was undertaken as part of the Government
of Canada’s Economic Action Plan;
•Project entailed the demolition and
construction of new Travellers and
Commercial facilities;
•CBSA utilized recently developed
standard design template and
design/build construction approach to
meet tight deadlines
•Project completed March 2012
•Corresponding US Port - Eastport
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Project Status Update
Pacific Region – Northern Housing
Pleasant Camp
Beaver Creek
US Port - Dalton Cache
US Port - Alcan
Little Gold
US - Port Poker Creek
•Housing required to support the Agency’s
Doubling-Up Initiative;
•Projects initiated under the Government of
Canada’s Economic Action Plan
•Little Gold and Pleasant Camp completed March
2011;
•Big Beaver completed March 2012
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Project Status Update
Prairie Region
Small Port Replacement
•Port modernization and replacement
at Lyleton ( US Port – Antler),
Goodlands (US port Carbury) and
Coulter (US Port Westhope);
•First projects utilizing CBSA’s
standard small port footprint;
•Substantial completion scheduled for
March 2013
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Project Status Update
Ontario Region - Prescott
•Modernization and expansion of the
port was undertaken as part of the
Government of Canada’s Economic
Action Plan;
•Project entailed the demolition and
construction of new Travellers and
Commercial facilities;
•CBSA utilized recently developed
standard design template and
design/build construction approach to
meet tight deadlines;
•Project completed March 2012;
•Corresponding US Port Ogdensburg
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Challenges/Opportunities
• Implementation of the CBSA initiatives outlined in the Beyond
the Border Action Plan;
• Ensure that the infrastructure at the top 20 ports of entry at
the land border are able to respond to the traffic volumes and
are capable of supporting the effective and efficient delivery of
the Agency’s border inspection mandate;
• Address the requirement to replace a vast majority of the
Agency’s smaller ports while ensuring that those recently
redeveloped remain functional and reliable;
• Sustain the level of recapitalization required to ensure the
maintenance of adequate border inspection facilities while
continuing to support future investments
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Priorities
• Improve infrastructure at Initial Priority ports of entry
identified by Canada in Beyond the Border Action Plan:
– Lacolle, Lansdowne, Peace Bridge, Emerson and North Portal
• Replacement, modernization and/or expansion of the
port facilities at Aldergrove, Pleasant Camp, Fraser and
St. Leonard;
• Construction of a new commercial examination facility at
Lacolle
• Continue to address the growing impact of rust-out and
building fatigue at the smaller and remote ports of entry
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