Originally Posted by
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No way CBSA would bring back CANPASS. They were paying $50 per crossing ($250k annual cost to operate, 5k crossings, vs 50 cents equivalent cost for NEXUS crossings in the last year CANPASS was offered). The time it would take to restart, reenroll, and operate would just not be worth it.
From the last CBSA audit of the trusted traveller programs in 2016, it was even worse than that, with an estimated cost of $103 per passage on CANPASS Air. The first recommendation from the audit is redacted, but given the context clues and the timing, it's likely that it was "shut down CANPASS Air and Private Boat, it overlaps with NEXUS and costs way too much to operate".