The counter-drug mission of the joint inter-agency task force south is, as he said, a partnership endeavour of 14 regional states in the Caribbean. So not only are we taking drugs off the streets of Canada—that's an easy way to express the outcome of taking tonnes of cocaine out of the narco-trafficking system—but we are actually disarming, to some degree, transnational organized crime. It is not in the government's platform to be aiding and abetting transnational organized crime. Our effort is to take money out of the destabilization of foreign states. This is the money of volumes that corrupt police forces and governments in the 14 regional states of the Caribbean basin, states that are fragile because of the scale of this narco war.
Finally, I would say that it's not just about drugs. The routes that drugs are moving on are the same routes that illicit trade can occur on, whether it's in arms, money, or the smuggling of human cargos. These routes can even be terrorist vectors for entering countries on the North American continent, including Canada. So it's a broader mandate that I don't think links easily back to the marijuana debate in Canada.