From your article: Re-= Canadian container
While Canadian authorities are confident the theft was not the work of terrorists, it has nonetheless raised serious concerns, given the fact Ottawa has spent millions of dollars improving and reorganizing port security.
On April 21, customs officials discovered the container, which was targeted for inspection and supposed to be under surveillance, was missing.
It took the border agency two days to figure out the container was not misplaced.
The theft was reported to Halifax Regional Police and a special port security task force on April 23.
Another day went by before the RCMP was told.
"We found out about it through the back door," the source said. Given the heightened state of security at Canada's ports, "we would have expected (customs) to notify us the moment it was (reported) missing."
Senior Mounties were furious because a special task force that included the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency, military police and Halifax Regional Police was set up at the port in 2003 to prevent this kind of oversight.
Despite the concerns, authorities do not believe the container carried any weapons of mass destruction, such as a radioactive dirty bomb, and did not pose a national security risk for either Canada or the United States.
Though they will not admit it publicly, police sources said they believe the crate was carrying drugs.
Authorities refuse to say where the container came from or what shipping line carried it."