The standard bill is $3,200 per inadmissible passenger. A carrier that has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Minister and can show it is following it pays $2,400, and can drop to $1,600 by meeting further standards in that memorandum. The discount disappears where the passenger was someone the carrier had been directed not to board, or where the person was the carrier's own crew. The memorandum covers document screening, staff training, technology, fraud prevention, gate checks, and performance standards.
(1)Subject to subsection (2), the administration fee assessed under section 279 is $3,200.
(2)If a memorandum of understanding in accordance with subsection (3) is in effect between the commercial transporter and the Minister, the administration fee assessed is (a)$3,200, if the commercial transporter does not demonstrate that it complies with the memorandum of understanding, if the commercial transporter carried to Canada a foreign national who is prescribed under section 258.1 or whom the commercial transporter has been directed under paragraph 148(1)(a) of the Act not to carry to Canada, or if the administration fee is assessed in respect of a member of the crew of the transporter; (b)$2,400, if the commercial transporter demonstrates that it complies with the memorandum of understanding; (c)$1,600, if the commercial transporter demonstrates that it complies with the memorandum of understanding and has a number of administration fee assessments that is equal to or less than the number specified in the memorandum, for the period specified in the memorandum, for reducing the administration fee by 50%; (d)$800, if the commercial transporter demonstrates that it complies with the memorandum of understanding and has a number of administration fee assessments that is equal to or less than the number specified in the memorandum, for the period specified in the memorandum, for reducing the administration fee by 75%; and (e)$0, if the commercial transporter demonstrates that it complies with the memorandum of understanding and has a number of administration fee assessments that is equal to or less than the number specified in the memorandum, for the period specified in the memorandum, for reducing the administration fee by 100%.
(3)A memorandum of understanding referred to in subsection (2) shall include provisions respecting (a)document screening; (b)the training of personnel in document screening; (c)the use of technological aids; (d)fraud prevention; (e)gate checks; (f)information exchange; (g)performance standards and administration fee assessments; (h)compliance monitoring of the provisions of the memorandum of understanding; (i)holding documents under section 260; (j)providing information referred to in subsections 269(1) and (2); (k)stowaways; and (l)security screening of members of a crew.