Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for the RCMP, and I'm not sure which member would be best suited to answer the question. In today's meeting we have occasionally touched on the links between the firearms trade and the drug trade. We know the opioid crisis is leaving a wake of carnage for so many families. In fact, in my home province of British Columbia, the life expectancy has actually decreased because of the number of people who are dying from the supply of toxic street drugs.
To the RCMP, can you touch on what the introduction of fentanyl and carfetanil has done to the drug trade and what the effects have been on the people who are trafficking in drugs? Has it impacted their need for firearms? Is there a marked increase for turf such that they are trying to control ports of entry, places where it's being distributed and so on? Can you touch on that link a little bit more?