Foreign Affairs committee  As it pertains to vehicle theft specifically, a lot of the vehicle theft entry into the country or exit out of the country is the mandate of the police of jurisdiction. The RCMP doesn't have a federal mandate with the car theft issue per se, but we do work with our policing partners and use our connections and our multi-jurisdictional international contacts to—

Foreign Affairs committee  What I would say is that it's not that we don't have a clear responsibility. Where the RCMP is the police of jurisdiction, we certainly do. What I'm saying is that, as the federal police force, particularly in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, we would work with our police of jurisdiction partners to effect any kind of auto theft investigation—

Foreign Affairs committee  —which is separate and apart from a federal policing mandate for sanctions evasion, where we're working with financial crime at a federal level. The resourcing for that particular function would be different. We're not saying that we don't have people to do it.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're saying that, as with any organization and being a large policing organization, we have competing priorities within federal policing. We do give sanctions evasion priority.

Foreign Affairs committee  With respect to the question about who would have jurisdiction, where sanctions evasion is concerned, the RCMP has jurisdiction on those investigations. If we require assistance from the police of jurisdiction, outside of us being the lead on those investigations, we would certainly engage that help, but we do have the mandate for those investigations.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. In relation to the resources, I wouldn't say we have limited resources. I would say that we give sanctions investigations high priority. They're a priority for us. They're a priority for our regime partners. We use the resources that we have in place to support the sanctions regime to the best of our ability.