Edited sentence: Cornwall's location and transportation links, make it a crossroads for cross-border smuggling of illicit tobacco, drugs, and firearms ().Customs and Excise members from the RCMP’s Northwest and Central regions have even attended Cornwall with the objective of learning, about the contraband phenomenon.Several lives have been lost by civilians as a result of police chasing smuggglers; this on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars lost in uncollected government tax, and millions of dollars spent on law enforcement that has had a negligible effect on smuggling ().The neighbouring Mohawk territory of Akwesasne enjoys a certain "First Nations" sovereingty which prevents Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadaian Mounted Police from ready access to the source of smuggling operations on the territory.The smuggling industry is rampant, with collusion between local freelancers, and international organized criminals