I can speak from my experience here in the city of Ottawa, with a population of a little over 800,000. It is an urban problem we're having with street gangs. We are not seeing that type of activity in the rural areas. Our experience is that those involved in the illicit crack trade with the violence, guns, and all the trimmings that go with it come into the urban core for that specific purpose. All the shootings and the instances we've been investigating over the past few months have been confined to the urban areas. We've done some warrants in the rural areas, but they've been more specific to firearms offences rather than gang or street gang offences.
On April 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.