We're basically asked to engage in an exercise in suspended belief about how these cigarettes end up in the hands of criminal organizations, and aboriginal peoples in particular, that somehow or another cigarettes get made here, they get stamped, they get marked for Estonia, and then somehow they fall off the truck, somewhere around Akwesasne or someplace like that.
It strikes me as the wrong end. That's the genesis of the question. In order to have a conspiracy, if you will, you actually have to have two people work together. What's curious to me is how, in what is a clear pattern of criminal activity, the liability seems to end when the product leaves the country in an “otherwise apparently legal transaction”.