Originally Posted by
yoonland
The US model works best for Canada as it is just more efficient to do both immigration and customs inspections at 1 booth at a land border, not to mention; a sizeable chunk of CBSA’s business is carrying out and enforcing removals, in partnership with IRCC. Don’t think that another agency is quite suited to do that, but time will tell
The "Euro" model can be implemented at land crossings just as easily as at airports. You would simply have the immigration booth (to confirm admissibility) followed by a customs checkpoint, where you either get waved through or pulled over to secondary.