Edmonton-based Lebanese gang set up a staffing system similar to that used by oil rigs and diamond mines, where teams of two dealers would rotate into Iqaluit every six weeks, typically importing a half million dollars in product each time and exporting a similar quantity of cash on the way out.RCMP Constable James Morrison, one of the lead investigators, said there was no crack in Iqaluit before the gang hit town. Soon, local residents were burning through their life's savings to pay the steep price of $200 per 0.8-gram hit, and some turned to crime to feed their habit, he said. Customers ran the gamut from well-paid professionals to the poor and vulnerable living on social assistance."The North is relatively untouched when it comes to gang turf in the drug trade, unlike the South, which tends to be carved up between established organized crime groups," Constable Morrison explained. With high profit margins and no costly violence associated with competition, Nunavut was
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