Overview
- Officers discovered the drugs on March 26 after the National Targeting Centre referred a container from the United Arab Emirates.
- The opium was concealed inside an 11,000-kilogram piece of commercial machinery at the Burnaby Container Examination Facility.
- A CBSA Detector Dog Team supported the targeted examination that uncovered the shipment.
- The agency released video of the operation, and the investigation remains ongoing.
- The 209-kilogram haul amounts to nearly half of the 448 kilograms of opioids CBSA reported seizing nationwide last fiscal year.