With the help of US $2 million pallet scanning system which was installed in 2004 that can scan pallets and large pieces of freight passing through the customs, more than four tones of hashish was seized last month from a marine container entering Halifax.
The drugs were discovered on a container bound for Ontario from Pakistan on June 8 by Canada Border Services Agency officers that examined a shipment containing 100 bales of raw cotton, and used the gamma-ray pallet scanner to find one-kilogram packs of 40 hashish packets inside each bale.
The scanner had produced images similar to X-rays, and pictures shown at the news conference clearly showed large, dark-coloured boxes inside the white bales.
They outlined another seizure of 107 kilograms of hashish on June 12 but the two seizures did not appear to be related as the drugs in the second seizure were discovered with bricks of hash hidden inside various pieces of wooden furniture, including a chessboard and the shipment had originated in Morocco, destined for Montreal.
The federal minister of public safety, Stockwell Day, praised the announcement as evidence that Canada is showing vigilance in protecting its borders.
These seizures show the Canada Border Services Agency's efforts are working.
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