Justice committee  What I will say in regard to that question is the teams and the personnel assigned to those teams will be in strategic locations where there is a concentrated concern or issues.

Justice committee  No, that will not change anything for us.

Justice committee  Yes, that is another advantage to this bill, given that we often work as partners in these kinds of investigations.

Justice committee  Yes. When we have to comply with new laws, we have to set priorities. Tobacco legislation enforcement has always been a priority but we may have to readjust our resources. I am certain that the RCMP will be able to respond.

Justice committee  The work itself will not necessarily change. This is an additional tool that we will have. This is how the bill will be helpful for the RCMP. It will allow us to institute proceedings under the Criminal Code, including for proceeds of crime. In order to prosecute for proceeds of

Justice committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. First, I would like to apologize for my just-in-time arrival. Thank you for inviting me here today to speak about Bill C-10, the tackling contraband tobacco act. As director of the RCMP federal coordination centre, I overse

Health committee  Is the RCMP is involved with the different departments...?

Health committee  Right. Definitely in the nature of police work we certainly look at the enforcement side of things. But as I said, we do subscribe to the fact that it is not only a law enforcement issue but also a whole community issue, and everybody has a role to play in it--

Health committee  I'm not sure I'm in a position to answer that question.

Health committee  No. I'm talking about illicit trafficking.

Health committee  Certainly it is a market that is of interest to organized crime. Organized crime is involved in it. We've investigated cases in which we have found organized crime to be involved. I believe that available intelligence on that would indicate that there are probably in excess of

Health committee  There are different ways. It's much like it has been described before. It can be from theft from pharmacies. Some of them do, I guess, traffic prescription drugs, but some of them can be counterfeit prescription drugs as well, so there are different ways for them to get involved

Health committee  Not really. I'm not aware of any other program in other law enforcement that would address that. Obviously, the development of prescription drug dependency would come down to control to start with, as to the amount of what is prescribed.

Health committee  If nobody else can answer it's certainly something I can check into and get back to the committee.

Health committee  I can answer this. My colleague wants to add something to it. Certainly, we do have a strategy. When it comes to enforcement, we have enforcement strategies in place that include multi partners. We believe that addressing the problem involves not only the RCMP but is more a who