Questions and responses 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to the Canada Border Services Agency Asset and Revenue Management system, since December 1, 2016: (a) what are the total expenditures related to the program, broken down by year; (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by type of expense; (c) what are the details of all contracts signed by the government related to the system, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) vendor, (iii) value, (iv) description of the goods or services provided, (v) manner in which the contract was awarded (sole-sourced or competitive bid), (vi) title of the government official who approved the contract; (d) for each contract in (c) that was awarded through a competitive bid process, how many bids were received; (e) what is the target accuracy rate for information contained in the Canada Border Services Agency Asset and Revenue Management system; (f) what is the cloud compute consumption in terms of graphics processing units for the Canada Border Services Agency Asset and Revenue Management system; (g) broken down by month, and week if available, since 2016, how many hours was the Canada Border Services Agency Asset and Revenue Management system (i) online, (ii) offline; (h) broken down by year and month, how many complaints were received, and at what rate; and (i) broken down by year, how many times have costs or cost estimates related to the program been revised and what are the details of each instance, including the (i) date, (ii) previous cost, (iii) revised cost, (iv) reason for the revision?

With regard to the Canada Border Services Agency's Assessment and Revenue Management system: (a) what are the amounts assessed and collected since the launch of the system; (b) how many cases had accounts in arrears for (i) 30 to 60 days, (ii) 60 to 90 days, (iii) 90 to 150 days, (iv) more than 150 days; and (c) what are the dollar values associated with the accounts in arrears, in total and broken down by each time period in (b)?

With regard to the Canada Border Services Agency Assessment and Revenue Management system: (a) from October 21, 2024 to October 21, 2025, what is the total number of customs accounting declarations filed, and how many of those were filed under a customs broker's business number; (b) as of October 21, 2025, what is the value of unpaid balances over 180 days, broken down by those associated with (i) importer business numbers, (ii) customs brokers' business numbers; (c) what is the number of registered importers in the Canada Border Services Agency Assessment and Revenue Management system as of October 21, 2025; (d) what is the number of registered importers without posted security; (e) as of October 21, 2025, what is the number of businesses secured by Release Prior to Payment bonds, and, of those, according to the Canada Border Services Agency's October 2025 recalculation, how many are (i) over-secured, (ii) under-secured; and (f) as of October 21, 2025, how many businesses are secured by cash deposits, and, of those, according to the Canada Border Services Agency's October 2025 recalculation, how many are (i) over-secured, (ii) under-secured?

With regard to the Canada Border Services Agency's Release Prior to Payment Privilege program: (a) as at the Release Prior to Payment Privilege program's transition period end date of May 20, 2025, at 3:00:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, how many importer program accounts were enrolled in the Release Prior to Payment Privilege program, including as part of the program's transition plan or after October 21, 2024; (b) of the importer program accounts reported in (a), what is the percentage of the total importer program accounts; (c) of the importer program accounts reported in (a), how many (i) provided the required financial security and thereby maintained Release Prior to Payment Privilege privileges by the program's transition period end date of May 20, 2025, at 3:00:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, and what is the percentage of total importer program accounts, (ii) imported only goods not subject to duties and taxes (e.g., zero-rated goods) between October 21, 2024, and May 20, 2025, at 3:00:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, and what is the percentage of total importer program accounts, (iii) imported dutiable or taxable goods between October 21, 2024, and May 20, 2025, at 3:00:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time but did not satisfy financial security requirements and were removed from the program, and what is the percentage of total importer program accounts, (iv) did not import any goods between October 21, 2024, and May 20, 2025, 3:00:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time and were removed from the program, and what is the percentage of total importer program accounts; (e) as at the Release Prior to Payment Privilege program's transition period end date of May 20, 2025, at 3:00:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, how many importer program accounts were ineligible for Release Prior to Payment Privilege; (f) between October 21, 2024, and the Release Prior to Payment Privilege program's transition period end date of May 20, 2025, at 3:00:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, how many importer program accounts submitted requests for a reduction of financial security amounts, and how many were (i) granted, (ii) denied; (g) of the requests for reduction of financial security reported in (f), what was the amount of the financial security demanded by the Canada Border Services Agency and the amount of reduction requested, broken down by importer program account; and (h) of the requests for reduction of financial security reported in (f) that were denied by the Canada Border Services Agency, what were the reasons for each denial, broken down by importer program account, and what were the reasons provided to each requester?