Justice committee  My understanding is that hotels aren't covered now, so that would be an expanded coverage. I haven't developed a full list. In my personal experience, though, I've looked at how people spend cash in big enough amounts so that knowing those amounts would help to trace either where

Justice committee  I'll speak to Inspector Perron after we leave.

Justice committee  Sure. We'll do something.

Justice committee  It's another vehicle that organized crime can use. It's a matter of getting controls in place to be able to, at the very least, report suspicious transactions to FINTRAC, which is the case. I think the expanded reporting by FINTRAC on activities to police forces, as they get the

Justice committee  There are really two aspects. One would be through policing and public policy, and the other is what individuals or companies should do. Just from the policing and public policy side, we've talked a little bit about that, but forensic accountants right now, I would say, are norm

Justice committee  It would depend on the intake officer and what the situation is, but my guess is they don't have the resources to follow up on a lot of those. If it's pretty serious... That's more a question for the police, and Don Perron would be a better person to ask.

Justice committee  I think the levels are about right for who is reporting now, but if you wanted to expand it to, for example, builders, construction companies, dealing in cash, you have a chance of expanding it to deal with both the underground economy and organized crime. The limit might be some

Justice committee  I haven't seen that. I know it's a lot easier to access that information in some other countries, but I don't know if they have actual legislation for it. That's a good question.

Justice committee  I'm not aware of that, no.

Justice committee  Not that I'm aware of, no.

Justice committee  I do not speak French very well. You're looking mainly at how to improve the tracing, and I agree with you that the issue is moving into businesses and properties being acquired and expanding into construction companies and empires, as opposed to just dealing on the street or s

Justice committee  The need to report is really something that's in legislation. You are required to report the corporation information, to file things, whether it's provincial or federal, and to file certain corporate information both when you incorporate and then annually. That requirement is alr

Justice committee  It was with a lawyer--

Justice committee  I think the information is all there now, but if you want to search it... Let's say you are trying to find companies that are associated with a group or individuals. Right now you can search by company name, but you can't search by address; you can't search by the name of the dir

Justice committee  We were talking about doing corporate searches at both the federal and provincial levels. So the information is there on directors and officers, in theory, not on owners. Right now ownership information for private companies isn't captured anywhere. So it would be adding the owne