We could probably talk all day about this issue. It's impacting us nationally, provincially; it's impacting our youth, community safety, etc. But as my friend just commented, this is multi-agency, everybody needs to jump into this about the messaging, the activities we undertake. There can't only be enforcement, there has to be education; there has to be a concise, unified message on what we're going to do about contraband tobacco. It's a complicated one because of the first nations impact as well. We have to be conscious of that. In Ontario we have dealt with that considerably over the past few years.
We have to put everything in our favour to try to address that the best we can. I heard they deferred their raw leaf legislation in Ontario, but they are looking to try to establish partnerships with the first nations communities and address regulation in that respect. We are partnering, we are addressing all the aspects we can. We can't be the only agency addressing tobacco issues. Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, we have a lot of other public safety issues to address. We have to find a balance in everything we work on.
I know our commissioner would say that we don't have the resources to just focus on every pack or bag of cigarettes that comes off a certain shack. But there are things we need to put in our favour. Legislation's a great tool.
We've talked about the Akwesasne/Cornwall area already. I know our minister has communicated that we believe the border crossing is being placed in the wrong place. It is going to expose us to further activity. In the last four years we have been very successful with our task force down there to control and limit the contraband activity, and I think the number of seizures speak to it. We are there 24/7.
I talked earlier about the marine activity, the boats. Just three weeks ago we stopped a boat coming on shore, seized hundreds of cases of contraband. We're very effective that way, but I'm not so naive as to believe we've lowered it. I think we've been active there for us and the public safety concerns of our communities. It has unfortunately simply moved to other locations.