Thank you.
I again remind you that in 1992 a previous government introduced early day parole, but we won't have that argument back and forth.
A lot of people watching will be saying that they do want the perpetrators of white collar crime punished, but more than that, an awful lot of the people want their money back. Yes, we have the CDIC for the banks situation. We have insurance situations. I guess when looking at the justice end of it we realize that criminals have become more sophisticated in white collar crime, and we have to get a little more sophisticated in our response.
For instance, Mr. Minister, you will know that in New Brunswick the Speech from the Throne was given this week. The Attorney General there—and I believe you just had a meeting with the attorneys general across the country—was introducing something called a Civil Forfeiture Act for certain crimes. I'm not exactly sure of the details, but that's the kind of innovative stuff that citizens out there are looking to us as parliamentarians to come up with, safety nets in advance, or the ability to claw in the proceeds of crime and ratchet it up a little more. Can you tell us what your government is doing in that regard?
Yes, punishment is important. Retribution is important. All of those things are very important. But at the end of the day as well, for those seniors who have been swindled and their life savings have disappeared, they don't look at silos of justice, public securities, public safety, and financial institutions. They want to know what we parliamentarians are doing to get victims their money back. What can you tell us about that?