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April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee Do you mean precisely where they are?
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee We have an idea where their factories are located, yes.
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee I do not specifically know, but I'm sure our—
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee Yes, I'm sure there are elements in the RCMP that do know.
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee There are a number of questions that have to be answered first. Do we have the intelligence and the location of the manufacturing facility, and enough to obtain a warrant to execute that? Whenever we do a police operation, there are always officer safety and public safety consi
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee Not speaking of any individuals, there are always considerations when police operations take place in areas that are politically sensitive. You may be familiar with what happened last week. There was a marine enforcement operation that occurred in the Cornwall region on the St. L
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee No, this was essentially year one of execution. We are writing year two of execution now. And that will be the May 2009 issue, so it will take time to collect the data, formulate it into a report, have it edited, translated, and go through the approval process. It can take quite
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee Actually, if I could turn to some of my colleagues, I think there are some positive indications that the market may be in a state of change.
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee One point of clarification. I believe you indicated that there were 100 unlicensed factories. Our information indicates that it fluctuates constantly, and these could be small operations that could be mobile. But our indication and estimates are that there's about 50 in Canada. T
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee I don't have an estimated size of the overall market, but last year, in 2009, we seized 975,000 cartons of cigarettes. It's up slightly, 1%, from 2008.
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee No, I don't.
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee Actually, it was posted on the web on Friday. It was distributed and I believe everybody has a copy. It's a first report. In fact, the statistics and some of the detail are in here up to October 2009.
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver
Public Safety committee That's not a figure I'm familiar with.
April 27th, 2010Committee meeting
C/Supt Joe Oliver