Canadian police cracks down on alcohol smugglers

Police in Canada are cracking down on smugglers, who are trying to evade taxes on alcohol by importing it.

From the nearby Islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon, North America's only French territory smugglers bring the drink illegally to a number of ports and beaches in nearby Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

The islands have profited since the days of prohibition.

Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from off the Newfoundland coast.