Thank you for your question.
I would say that traditionally with regard to gangs and organized crime being involved in drug trafficking, that has always led to accompanying firearms. With regard to the transition to, I'll use fentanyl and methamphetamine, for example, there are huge markets right now in Canada for those drugs. There continues to be a huge market for cocaine, which has always been more of a staple for organized crime groups in terms of drug importation and distribution in Canada.
As I mentioned earlier, we've seen a big transition by a lot of organized crime groups moving into the fentanyl market and moving into the methamphetamine market. I mentioned a CISC public report that recently came out, which identified that there were in excess of 250 organized crime groups across the country that have transitioned into being involved in the fentanyl market and over 300 organized crime groups that have transitioned and are now heavily involved in the methamphetamine market. It's a big market, and whatever the drug is—whether it's cocaine, fentanyl, or meth—if the demand is there, you are going to get groups that are moving into it, both gangs and organized crime. With that comes competition between gangs and organized crime, and that does foster a potential increase in violence.