Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. McCarty and Mr. Kemball, Mr. Montour and Ms. Montour.
I don't know if you've seen that the RCMP has just come out with its contraband tobacco enforcement strategy. I don't know if you've had a chance to see it. One of the things it says is that the largest proportion of all contraband tobacco seized by the RCMP originates from illicit manufacturers on the U.S. side of Akwesasne territory.
Mr. Montour, you talked about how the United States takes some pretty serious action against companies or organizations that don't mark their tobacco. It doesn't seem to be that willing, as I understand it, to take action against contraband cigarettes being smuggled across into Canada.
How do we deal with that? Do we have better interdiction methods? The geography for some of it is that they can move right through first nations territory from the U.S. side to the Canadian side. How do we deal with a good number of these products coming from the U.S. side?