As you may all be aware, in 2005 we had a very tough year in terms of gun violence in the city of Toronto. We developed the Toronto anti-violence intervention strategy. It was a two-pronged approach, and basically we wanted to disrupt and dismantle the activity in our communities. It was predicated on two assumptions, the first one being that all gun violence is drug related and the second assumption being that it's committed by repeat offenders.
If you take the “all drug violence is drug related” approach and ask the question, which offences would we like to pursue and provide protection regarding, either for witnesses or agents, it would be drug-related investigations that perhaps fall underneath the level of what the RCMP may be involved or interested in at the importation level. But they fall within our jurisdiction, and they are a poison in our community. They are the very drugs that flow through the community and create the rivalry and violence.