Justice committee  When dealing with legal action against organized crime, one must recognize that fake identities or front men are common place in this milieu. It is therefore very difficult to link individuals to goods that you attempt to confiscate. Several years ago, it was the major problem an

Justice committee  Absolutely. Now, this practice is recommended in the guidelines of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, namely that the prosecutors commit to this at the very start. In some cases, at the beginning of an investigation, we think that we will go in one direction and we realize

Justice committee  I agree, and in Colisée, just to give you an example, we didn't define as relevant all the 1.2 million calls that were intercepted by the police. We established a procedure so that we disclosed 8,000 conversations we chose in the evidence that the crown wanted to put before the j

Justice committee  I believe personally that it would be a good idea to do that. For instance, if we take the case of Colisée, a wiretap case, we divided the case into separate court files to make it easier to manage before the courts. We didn't want to have the trial of 101 accused before the cour

Justice committee  I believe that a good management of the evidence and its disclosure at the outset have this effect. Without going into the details, because not everything has yet been tallied, for 101 accused persons, I believe that approximately 70 files are now complete, as we speak. The discl

Justice committee  The international aspect falls under my colleague's area of expertise.

Justice committee  Parliament has decided to codify various common law principles in the past. We've seen that. The sentencing aspect of criminal law has been codified in sections 7, 18, and the following sections of the Criminal Code. It's possible to do that. Common law has been codified in the p

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Lacasse. Whenever we are dealing with organized crime, that automatically means there will be a mega-case. The ultimate objective of the more and more frequent investigations into organized crime is to dismantle the organizations and, more importantly, to neutrali