As the minister noted, the bill deals with all of the aspects of the chain of acts that lead to what in the bill is called identity fraud, where you actually use false identity to commit a fraudulent offence, the collection of the information with that intent. There are provisions dealing with the instruments you can use to create a false identity, and then the final end-use offences. By breaking it down this way and capturing the various aspects of it, you have additional tools to get at the kind of organized activity you're speaking of, where very often those steps are broken down. And different groups of people, sometimes in different countries.... Organized crime might quite commonly collect identity information on Canadians, use that to produce false credit cards or other kinds of false identity in Romania, and then the documents are used in Britain.
If the only thing that goes on in Canada is the collecting of the identity, that's very difficult to get at if you have to follow the chain through. But if you have an offence that deals with the collecting of the information in Canada in order to pass it on, and then passing that information on, then you have something that can capture whatever stage in this chain of events occurs here that you can capture the evidence about.
It also simply helps to deal with the whole.... Even if it's one person who's doing all of these, you can catch them at an earlier stage or you can catch them at various stages of what they're doing. So whether it's broken down and several different people are doing different stages or it's the same person, it gives you far more tools to deal with, as you've described it, the very sophisticated kind of activity that's both national and international in scope.