Justice committee  That's part of it. There are some restrictions under the Privacy Act as well. There are also restrictions under various acts. The Customs Act, for example, is one of them. When you're dealing with international agencies, or in our case with those in the U.S., there are certain restrictions about what we can and can't share.

Justice committee  Not that I know of.

Justice committee  Some of them do come through manned border crossings, smuggled into vehicles and various other methods, but the vast majority come in between the ports, where you smuggle them across an unmanned part of the border. We have many more miles of unmanned than we do of manned borders.

Justice committee  Exactly. And sometimes, you know, if they feel that they're really going to be questioned at a port of entry, then they'll go a mile off the port of entry and try to sneak across in the middle of the night.

Justice committee  A lot of the smuggling is coordinated by the gangs themselves. So they make the contact on the U.S. side with the movement of contraband. And the general supplier of contraband...they have a source on the American side who they coordinate the shipment with. They make the exchange at the border, or in fact the Canadian gang member will sneak across the border, go into the U.S., make the exchange, and actually bring the weapons and the guns, and that's where they end up in the cities.

Justice committee  I can't really speak to the Youth Criminal Justice Act. I'm not totally up on it. I don't know if John wants to comment.

Justice committee  Yes. We work very closely with CBSA for obviously the smuggling of weapons across the border. Some of them come through the ports, but the vast majority come between the ports. So within our—

Justice committee  I can speak briefly about the guns. In my work along the border we do see a lot of guns moving across the border. We have a lot of intelligence on guns moving across the border. A lot of it...for lack of a better word, the B.C. bud, or the marijuana, goes south, and the guns come north.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The importation and selling of counterfeit goods is one such activity, and it is gaining significant momentum in Manitoba and across the country. Almost anything manufactured can be counterfeited, including sunglasses, batteries, automotive parts, to name but a few.

Justice committee  Thank you, John. Thank you to committee members for inviting us here today to discuss the important issue of organized crime in our communities. I'll keep my comments very brief. I just want to touch on a couple of key areas. I'm the officer in charge of border integrity. It's one of the federal programs of the RCMP here in Manitoba.