I think the RCMP will corroborate this information. By far the majority--the greatest part of raw tobacco used for illegal manufacture--originates from the U.S. Some of it comes from North Carolina and some of it comes from elsewhere in the world. We've heard reports also, anecdotally, that there are so-called “barn sales” of tobacco that bypass the auction system, but by far the majority comes up from the U.S.
When you look at the amount of illegal cigarettes being sold—that's 10 billion cigarettes—it's equivalent to 1,000 40-foot containers or big articulated trucks, and that's a huge amount. The amount of tobacco required for it is pretty well of the same magnitude, because tobacco is obviously the largest single component in a cigarette. So this stuff is largely being trucked up in huge quantities from the U.S.
I think that creates an additional challenge in terms of choking the supply of materials. For those reserves that straddle the U.S.-Canadian border, it's all very well to enforce the Canadian side, but unless you can ensure that similar restraints are being applied on the U.S. side of the border to incoming materials and machinery and tobacco, then there's a high risk that the choking-off strategy will be undermined.