Justice committee  With the present legislation, without Bill C-14, there are two major difficulties. One is identifying the people involved, and that's what Mr. Bingley mentioned in his representations this morning. But even if you get past that obstacle, the second difficulty is establishing the

Justice committee  That's one way of doing it. I know some people have proposed it. I believe Mr. Ménard proposed something along those lines recently. The other way is to simply ask Parliament to receive the evidence available on the question and let Parliament decide. That, in effect, was done

Justice committee  I'm not proposing that you adopt a system exactly the same as the one for terrorist groups, because in the case of terrorist groups you put names on a list without receiving any evidence as to what those groups have done. I'm proposing you wait until sufficient evidence has come

Justice committee  Yes, I have those.

Justice committee  There were two other decisions, last September and last December in Toronto, in which Mr. Justice McMahon of the Superior Court stated that the Hells Angels were a criminal organization everywhere in Canada.

Justice committee  In terms of organizations that have been declared criminal by the courts, I mentioned the Bandidos earlier. This is an international organization that has been convicted by a jury in Quebec. That is one specific example. In Montreal, there were also guilty pleas to charges of ga

Justice committee  That's what I'm proposing. However, you don't have to start off with a long list, as you did with terrorist groups. That's a very drastic measure. Perhaps we could name some others, but Hells Angels is the most obvious example of a group that has been convicted so many times and

Justice committee  Ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee, thank you for having invited me to testify before you in the context of your study of Bill C-14. I share your deep concern with regard to the fight against organized crime and the search for new means of combatting it. Allow me t

Justice committee  I want to start off by saying that I don't have a mandate here to comment on whether Bill C-10 should be adopted or not. I don't have a mandate from the Attorney General of Quebec to come out for or against the bill, so any comments I make on it are purely personal and engage onl

Justice committee  First of all, I'd like to make a comment on something that has at times been said in the media. People are given the impression sometimes that the bikers in other provinces, such as Ontario, came from Quebec. I don't think that's an accurate reflection of what has happened. It'

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  No, I wouldn't say they acquired chapters in Ontario because they felt pressure in Quebec. The effort had begun much earlier. In fact, there were a couple of members of the Quebec Nomads chapter who were actively recruiting all across Canada to try to get other biker clubs to pat

Justice committee  In my view, the question whether a specific reference to street gangs should be added to the Criminal Code was answered last week in the context of Judge Bonin's decision in the Aurélius case, in which, for the first time, we saw that the present definition of a criminal organiza

Justice committee  The reason I said that the anti-gang legislation made it easier for us to get wiretaps in criminal organization investigations is that prior to 1997, the general rule, which still applies to all other cases, is that before you can get authorization to do wiretapping, you have to

Justice committee  Thank you very much. My name is Randall Richmond. I have been a lawyer and a prosecutor since 1983, and prosecutor for the Province of Quebec since 1988. I began pleading organized crime cases in the 1990s and I worked in the Proceeds of Crime Bureau (BLPC) from its inception i