Thank you, sir.
The fact that organized crime has become so intrinsically involved with this really raises red flags in the policing community and should raise red flags everywhere. By and large, I think it's because they saw that it's a huge profit-maker and, at the time, that it was relatively low risk, in the sense that huge shipments could be seized and there would be huge penalties to be paid, for sure, but ones that were just a fraction of what they were making.
There was really not much incentive for them to stop doing it because the cash flow was so great. Then we know for a fact from talking to the RCMP and from my own experience with policing that they reinvest that money into other criminal activities, such as gun-running and drugs, and there have been even some examples of human smuggling.
The fact is that the government is taking a look ahead and looking at things in a harsher manner, with more procedures by indictment, maybe dual offences, but at least indictable offences, with real, meaningful penalties, maybe including seizure of property and what not. In particular, looking at it as an organized crime activity would give them pause and may be able to slow them down. Moreover, law enforcement would have a lot more in their arsenal to fight the problem as opposed to just imposing a revenue fine.