The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) has a periodic testing regime that verifies that the millimetre wave equipment is functioning normally, within prescribed parameters, and calibrated in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications.

Unlike the American body scanners, ours do not pose the same health risk because they use a millimetre wave technology rather than X-ray technology. Passenger security is extremely important and our government is committed to balancing that by ensuring that passengers are treated respectfully and properly.

Third, I would say that the millimetre wave scanner is a better mousetrap and should be rolled out across the country.

The millimetre wave scanning is, without a doubt, not magic, but a much better mousetrap.

[27] At European level see: Note of 15.2.2010, Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Environnement et du Travail relative au "scanner corporel à ondes "millimétriques" ProVision 100"; The French Institute for Nuclear Radioprotection and Safety (IRSN), Evaluation du risque sanitaire des scanners corporels à rayons X « backscatter », rapport DRPH 2010-03 and Recommandations 2007 de la Commission Internationale de Protection Radiologique, ICPR 103; Health Protection Agency, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (HPA), UK, Assessment of comparative ionising radiation doses from the use of rapis ...[+++]can secure 1000 X-ray backscatter body scanner, UK January 2010 (Available at www.dft.gov.uk).

50. Other states are considering deployment of Security Scanners: for example, Japan intends to introduce active and passive millimetre-wave machines.