Why was the Border Services (FB) occupational group created?
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), which was created on December 12, 2003, brought together the Customs Branch of the former Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, portions of the Appeals and Compliance Programs Branches that supported Customs, the Intelligence, Interdiction and Enforcement programs of Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the Import Inspection at Ports of Entry program from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The new work characteristics that resulted from merging these organizations could not be appropriately measured and valued within the existing Treasury Board classification system. To address this issue, in November 2005, Treasury Board approved a new classification standard for the FB Group and an occupational group definition was published in the Canada Gazette in March 2006. In line with this initiative, a corresponding qualification standard was developed.
