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A Canadian man detailed the ease of smuggling marijuana across the Canada-U.S. border through a native reserve, using boats across the St. Lawrence in summer and snowmobiles in winter to bring their loads to a waiting fleet of delivery drivers and scout cars used as decoys.

The details of the pot pipeline that delivered a steady stream of marijuana into the United States in an enterprise spanning six years is detailed in U.S. court documents filed at the guilty plea of the pipeline’s boss. Colin Stewart, 41, of Elgin, Que., known by the nicknames C-Man and Cowboy, acknowledged his role in the operation Tuesday in a New York State courtroom.

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While the plea agreement shows how smoothly his operation ran for years, it also highlights the ultimate cost of his chosen business plan — he accepted an 11-year prison term in the United States and up to a $10-million fine.

Stewart, with two other men, were originally indicted in 2013, but it wasn’t until this January that he finally appeared in a U.S. court in Syracuse, N.Y., after fighting his extradition from Canada.