Canadian border officers were not able to review potential security flags related to truck drivers crossing into the country from the United States last week, according to their union.
Officers were forced to manually process travellers after the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) experienced a system outage that started Sept. 28.
The outage was resolved within 48 hours, according to the CBSA, but led to delays of up to 38 hours for commercial trucks entering parts of Canada during the week.
"When the system is down, we're not getting the information on pot
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