In October 2000, I believe, there were some changes to the legislation, and customs started looking at shipments. If they found counterfeit, they would contact the RCMP. A regional intelligence officer would pick up the phone and speak to the RCMP. If the RCMP would take the case, then they would seize the product.
I've been doing this work since 1985 in anti-counterfeiting. Until then, I had never seized a container shipment out of Vancouver. We seized about 10 containers in less than six months. We ran out of space to store everything, and for years there were no more seizures of container-quantity product. However, when we stopped, in that six-month period, we started seeing it come in through Lethbridge, Alberta. So if you stop it in one place, it comes in somewhere else. For a period of time, when we got more active in the Toronto area, we started seeing that instead of using shipping containers, the counterfeiters would ship 45-kilogram shipments by air into Toronto or Montreal. Why? Because they were under the radar, and people just don't grab them.
Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver are the four main places.