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Originally Posted by Keith P.
I still don’t see the benefit other than avoiding a bit of a trek and a second tour of the security theater, which could have been easily addressed with some accessibility changes. With this, it seems luggage is not inspected by CBSA here, so those passengers will need to endure another bout with CBSA at their final destination, just avoiding the admittance to Canada step. This seems more of a benefit for the local CBSA crew than the traveller, except for the time saved here if you are a connecting passenger, though you lose that savings at the other end.
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It would just bring the practice up to what is already done at other airports in Canada on international arrival and transfer to domestic. Your checked bags are held on arrival pending your getting cleared through CBSA. CBSA decides to inspect the luggage on first arrival to Canada, or not. You go through the connections CBSA agents, they do their thing, and if they decide to look at your checked bags, they pull it from the holding area before you (and your bag) go to your connecting flight. If they choose to not inspect, it just gets passed along to the airline to the next leg. Even if there are CBSA agents at the next domestic airport on the itinerary, they don't inspect the bags anymore once passed to the airline for the domestic leg.
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