“As long as there’s a demand for it, people will smuggle it,” says one officer of the Canada Border Services Agency.
He ought to know. Every day, CBSA agents seize illegal guns, drugs and exotic weapons that people are trying to smuggle across the Canadian border.
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Global News took a look at CBSA’s haul through an access to information request, and came up with some surprising insights into what illegal products Canadians demand.
Take a look at our data and see what you find.
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- There are changes coming to Tim Hortons menus and stores soon
- Supreme Court annuls 2025 one-vote Liberal win in Montreal riding
- ‘We now have to figure out how to live life without her’: Mother of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim speaks
- Elections Canada says Freeland broke rule by answering byelection questions
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