Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Border integrity, illicit tobacco, and Canada's security / Jean Daudelin with Stephanie Soiffer and Jeff Willows.

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Canadian Policing Research

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Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-33, 37-41).

Description

1 online resource (41 pages) : maps.

Note

"March 2013."

Summary

The small town of Cornwall in eastern Ontario can be considered the contraband capital of Canada, thanks to the high volume of cross-border smuggling and illicit trade in the area. The problem has two sources: the unique local geography combined with practical, legal, and political problems that make it easy to bypass border controls; and the tolerance of Canadian and US law enforcement toward the illicit manufacture and sale of tobacco products on the Mohawk territory that straddles the Canada-US border between Ontario, Quebec, and New York State. Much of the local problem revolves around tobacco; however, significant amounts of illegal drugs, weapons, and humans have been trafficked through the area, all of these accounting for a chain of collateral crime in the surrounding region. The gross value of these illegal practices reaches into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Contents

Executive summary -- Sommaire -- Introduction -- 1. Background: illicit trade and the tobacco economy in Canada -- 2. The workings of the illicit tobacco trade -- 3. The security implications of illicit tobacco -- 4. Current policies and options -- Conclusion -- Author biographies -- References.

Series

National security strategy for Canada series ; 4.

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