Health committee  Our experience is similar to Calgary's. Most of our supply chain is coming from the west, from B.C. It's fair to say that in some of the investigations we've been involved in, it looks as though it's being smuggled up from Mexico into B.C. and then across the Prairies.

Health committee  I'm not familiar with B.C. Certainly border security would come into play. These drugs would be smuggled in containers on transport trucks and ships. This is certainly not my area of expertise, in the middle of the Prairies.

Health committee  In Winnipeg we see it in two ways. Certainly our call for service queue is backlogged as officers get tied up with the health care facilities, monitoring people who are awaiting treatment, and that prevents us from getting into the community and doing proactive work in the commun