Justice committee  Absolutely. To connect all the dots as it pertains to criminal intelligence service, you would do yourself a great favour by stopping in to see a number of the bureaus. After this session here, secretarially we could respond back to you on agencies or bureaus we think would be a benefit to you, and then you can make your own decision.

Justice committee  As I think you noted in my opening comments, they are independent of us because they are under the guidelines of their provincial executive committees, but that's something you could have a discussion with them on, the same as the chair had the discussion with me and Bud before we started.

Justice committee  The provinces themselves put out a number of publications.

Justice committee  Specifically to your question as it pertains to street gangs, your commentary specific to that is exactly right. We certainly agree with you, and that is the perception of local law enforcement. As it pertains to where we are from a Criminal Intelligence Service Canada perspective, I would take a somewhat different view from what you articulated in that--

Justice committee  As you indicated, our community is large and we bring the information or, to use your words, knit the information together. I think it's important for all of us to also understand and appreciate that to do this we have a national database designed specifically for organized crime activity.

Justice committee  Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. As presented, my name is Don Dixon, and I'm the director general of Criminal Intelligence Service Canada. Today I am joined by our deputy director general, who is responsible for operations within the Criminal Intelligence Service community.