CBSA 2023 Year in Review: Greater Toronto Area Region infographic

From January 1 to October 31, 2023

Home to approximately 2,500 CBSA employees who support over 340 service points in Ontario, the GTA Region hosts the Agency’s largest air, cargo, mail processing, and trade operations in the country.

Seized

• Drug seizures: 3,000
• Prohibited weapons: 6,200
• Firearms, replica firearms & firearm parts: 955
• Currency: CAD$5.3 million
• Food, plant and animal import violations: 559

Welcomed

• Travellers: 12.8 million
• Asylum claimants: 10,940
• Students: 200,000
• Foreign workers: 228,600

Processed

• 68 million courier low value shipments
• 54% of all CBSA postal mail
• 4.8 million commercial shipments