Public Safety committee  We had an initial version where we found errors with our statistics. That was in December. We had to have it reproduced, re-edited, and republished. I think it was finalized in January sometime, and then it had to go to translation. So it's been a while in the making.

Public Safety committee  Yes, it was within the last month or last two months. Then it went through the approval process as to what our strategy was to release it.

Public Safety committee  Well, actually that's another anomaly. If you look, for instance, on page—

Public Safety committee  No, this was an RCMP written report.

Public Safety committee  Well, the strategy is continuing, as I mentioned. We do have coordinators in each of the regions, and they are implementing the various levels of the strategy. There were 29 or so initiatives. Some initiatives apply more in some areas than others--for instance, when we talk about surge operations in high-risk areas, in the Cornwall area, for example, that's an example of the type of activity we're undertaking.

Public Safety committee  I think that used to be the position. That fluctuates now with the fact that we have manufacturers in Canada as well. Historically, Cornwall has been a significant majority. I don't know where the number 90% came from, but it has been a number that's been kicked around. I wouldn't say it's 90%, but I would say it's a significant majority.

Public Safety committee  Well, this is where the strategy has to be multi-layered. What we've seen in the past is displacement to other markets. Cornwall would be one area we'd have to focus on, and we would then have to focus efforts on the organized crime groups that are manufacturing in Canada.

Public Safety committee  I can't go into the circumstances as to precisely why none, but some of the conditions are that we would require the intelligence precisely that would convince a judge to issue a warrant in those cases; secondly, as I mentioned, when it comes to enforcement operations, we have to be mindful of the impact our actions would have in terms of public and officer safety.

Public Safety committee  None. We've attacked the organized crime groups, as I mentioned.

Public Safety committee  None.

Public Safety committee  The strategy is a multi-year strategy, and I think it would be premature for us to estimate whether or not we've met that objective. I think we're having an impact, but I would say that we have not achieved that outcome at this point. We're hoping to track the data, to monitor our enforcement actions, to monitor our demand reduction efforts to see whether or not we're having an impact.

Public Safety committee  I don't have any precise information on it, but I think we're still at around the same level.

Public Safety committee  Well, I wouldn't say that the RCMP strategy alone.... The sense I'm getting, based on what I've heard from my colleagues, is that there may be a shift in the market; that if there's no greater number of smokers but there are increased sales, then it would appear that the market is changing.

Public Safety committee  Well, compared with the early 1990s, I think it is the highest level we've seen of contraband, and our seizure rates are at record levels as well. In the 1990s, at the time when it was seen to be epidemic—and that was at the time—I think we seized around 450,000 cartons of cigarettes.

Public Safety committee  I think the fact that we've disrupted 25 organized crime groups is a bit of an achievement.