Alberta launched its own border patrol last year to help stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across what Premier Danielle Smith called the “leaky” U.S. border. But the Interdiction Patrol Team (IPT) has so far made only a handful of arrests for those offences, according to data released through an access to information request.

In an effort to quell U.S. President Donald Trump’s concerns about illegal drugs and migrants moving across the northern border, and prevent Canada from being hit with 25 per cent tariffs, Alberta’s United Conservative government invested $29 million in December to create its own border patrol unit.