Toronto Pearson Airport security has been re-arranged to place Canadian security (with baggage x-ray and shoe inspection) now taking place ahead of the often perfunctory discussion with U.S. immigration personnel. The revamped Security in Advance or SIA protocol is already in place elsewhere and was urgently put forward by the Americans in talks with the federal authorities. To a layman it is not necessarily clear how this arrangement makes travel safer but seem to amount to the same thing at the very least. Security officials say it is more likely to avoid people sneaking through to the departure lounge. The switch is also said to open up travel to American destinations where local airports don’t have a customs set-up.
