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Originally Posted by Ducay
You'll have to wait and pickup your bags like the rest of the schmucks in YEG and then go through US preclearance with them, and then drop them once you're through.
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Not anymore.
The bags are transferred and the CBP agent can call up a photo of the bag and have it brought up if search is needed; this is one of the great benefits of transferring through YEG. (YVR is the same, but a much longer walk through customs and to your gate).
A benefit to those who don't have "free bag-check" status with the US airlines - get an Air Canada codeshare YYC-YEG then through Denver or LAX on United or IAH on Continental and you get the first bag free.