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Every year, thousands of items are confiscated from passengers checking baggage or going through security. Just a few minutes spent in reviewing the contents of your bags and person can help you avoid the loss of your items.
Restrictions on liquids, gels, and aerosols were put in place by Transport Canada to respond to a foiled terrorist plot in London which revealed that liquids, gels, and aerosols were to be used as explosives on airplanes. For those travelling between northern airports which do not have security check-in, it is particularly important to ensure that your baggage or carry-on items do not contain restricted or dangerous items.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority provides a summary of Restrictions on Liquids, Gels and Aerosols, as well as Permitted and Non-Permitted Items. Some highlights:
- Items permitted in limited quantities through security screening (must fit within a 1 litre or smaller clear plastic resealable bag):
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- 100 ml / 100 gm / 3.4 oz quantities of liquids, gels, and aerosols, including foods such as yogurt, pudding, and jam
- Baby formula, baby food, milk, water, and juice if a child aged two years and under is travelling
- Liquid prescription medicine with a name that matches the passenger's ticket or boarding pass
- Essential non-prescription liquid medicines
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Examples of common items not permitted in your carry-on baggage, but which can be in your checked baggage if precautions are taken to ensure safety such as wrapping and securing sharp objects:
- Firearms and ammunition
- Most sporting equipment including bowling balls, golf clubs, hockey sticks, ice skates, paintball guns, and ski poles
- Toy weapons (water gun, squirt gun, toy or replica grenades, or toy guns)
- Sharp objects such as utility knives, kitchen knives, jacknives, meat thermometers, pointed scissors, switchblades, hatchets, machetes, razor blades not in cartridge (disposable razors are permitted)
- Strike-anywhere matches
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Tools such as hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, drills, saws, crow bars, and heavy tools
Examples of items not permitted in your carry-on or checked baggage:
- Camping equipment for cooking
- Caustic materials such as liquid bleach and chlorine
- Contraband (illegal items of any kind, as well as intoxicants in excess of prescribed limits)
- Explosives and related material, including fireworks, detonators, and distress flares
- Fire extinguishers
- Flammable aerosols that are not toiletry items (static guard sprays, laundry starch, etc.)
- Incapacitating sprays, liquids, or powders, including mace, pepper spray (including bear and dog sprays), and tear gas
- Most weapons, including martial arts weapons. Arrows and darts used in crossbows, crossbowes, and axes can be put in checked baggage)
- Oxygen cylinders
- Paint and other flammable liquids (including enamel, lacquer, liquid filler, paint thinner, stain, shellac, varnish and liquid lacquer base, solvent-based paint, spray paint). Watercolour paint is permitted.
- Tool boxes containing dangerous goods such as explosives (power rivets), compressed gas or aerosols, flammable gases (butane cylinders or torches), flammable adhesives or paints, corrosive liquids, etc.)
- Zippo lighters or lighters with unabsorbed liquid fuel
Examples of items permitted in your carry-on baggage but not permitted in your checked baggage:
- Spare batteries for consumer electronic devices containing lithium or lithium cells or batteries when carried for personal use. They must be individually protected and each spare battery must not exceed:
- for lithium metal or lithium alloy batteries, a lithium content of 2 grams; or
- for lithium ion batteries, an aggregate equivalent lithium content of 8 grams.
- One book of safety matches intended for personal use when carried on the person (e.g. in pocket or purse)
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