There is a sharing regime in the regulations of the Seized Property Management Act that allows for sharing with provinces. If a local police force does the majority of the work, they get the lion's share of the proceeds. Many provinces, particularly in the west from Ontario to the Pacific, have introduced civil remedies for criminal actions, so other avenues can be used.
We have seen a trend in our business volumes from 1993, when the group was formed with a single case, through to peak volumes around 2009 under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, one of the acts we serve. Then we had decreasing volumes through 2015, and then more stabilization lately. There's an ebb and flow, and there's a lot of variation within a given jurisdiction in a given year. This is a normal part of the business.
Most of the discussions we've had with law enforcement about predicting business volumes—predicting makes them easier to serve—have related to the competing priorities that law enforcement has to deal with. These are things like national security, which has emerged as a big priority lately, and a shifting view, through the FATF evaluation of Canada, that money laundering is a threat to national security and therefore should be given increased weight. Those kinds of thinking have seen ebbs and flows in our business volumes.