Justice committee  I'm not sure if any piece of legislation is going to stop anything anywhere. Street gangs, from my experience, are fuelled by a number of things, and I think one of the largest things fuelling it is ego. You can't legislate ego. I think Bill C-10 is an improvement on the firear

Justice committee  I think the chief covered it all. In the case of the person who was out after eight months of a 55-month sentence, we provided a ton of documents and federal corrections system supported it all and recommended the same thing, no bail, and then it came under the control of the Nat

Justice committee  If I could add to that, one thing that's happening in British Columbia--and we've been doing this for a year or two now--is that we're on board with Revenue Canada. They have made it a priority and they have served all the Hells Angels in British Columbia with audit notifications

Justice committee  If I may--and I'm sorry I keep going back to biker stuff, because that's what I do--we meet and we speak frequently with OMG investigators throughout the world. There's a tool they use in Australia, which is not specific to bikers and I won't be able to be specific here, but they

Justice committee  I might just make one point with this, I'll speak more to the Hells Angels type of thing. Talking about expertise, which came up earlier, and attacking this type of problem, one of the key issues here--and it's to do with this legislation--is the Hells Angels, for example, are He

Justice committee  Mr. Chairman and committee members, I'd like to speak today with a little more concentration on the city police and the street-level focus of organized crime, with a particular focus on firearm aspect. On the gang demographics a little bit in the Vancouver area,it's a very popul