Finance committee  I don't have the exact number. I can probably provide that to the committee. In order of magnitude, I would say that about 5% would come from casinos. But this is just order of magnitude. I will provide the committee with those statistics.

Finance committee  It is totally up to them. We have provided them with guidelines, but once they reach a determination that something is suspicious, they are obligated by law to send it to us.

Finance committee  We would have to receive the information. We have to have names, addresses, etc.

Finance committee  We are not entitled to disclose information to the Agence du revenu du Québec. Our legislation does not allow it. We make a lot of disclosures to the Sûreté du Québec, however.

Finance committee  At FINTRAC, a large amount of the budget is spent on keeping our own IT up to scratch. Also, some of our analysts on the money laundering side are dedicated to basically keeping up with the new technologies that could be used for money laundering and/or new payment methods. Which

Finance committee  We have an evergreen plan to replace our equipment. And we are constantly updating, for instance, analytical tools. We use charts to describe the links. I could bring a chart that would show you all the connections between the people we're looking at. That takes quite a bit of sk

Finance committee  Yes, we've presented at different committees and we'd be happy to send that to you.

Finance committee  We are very indirectly connected with this issue. It isn't an issue that concerns us, because it's the reporting entities, specifically the banks, caisses populaires and other financial institutions, that are our sources of information. They have to report suspicious transactions

Finance committee  You know that under the legislation I can't comment on specific cases. So I would have to generalize.

Finance committee  Take a case where the Canada Revenue Agency or other sources provide us with information about this and our analysis did in fact detect money laundering, that being our mission. If we can then conclude that we have reasonable grounds to suspect there has been tax evasion, we do a

Finance committee  Quite a bit. If my numbers are correct, we have over 200 what we call FIUQs, queries from foreign jurisdictions. We have a network of about 73 countries that we've signed agreements with, so the exchange with our partners is extremely important for us.

Finance committee  Yes, on a daily basis I might receive over 200 suspicious transaction reports. The rest are large cash...the rest in a day are—

Finance committee  They could be separate reports. They are required to send us separate reports, suspicious transaction reports, and if it's over $10,000 cash—it must be cash—they will send us a report. Those are separate, but they can tell us they think that $10,000 is separate, or they can tell

Finance committee  Yes, you did.

Finance committee  We receive all of this information. We do review all of the suspicious transactions that come in on a daily basis. It's a very important trigger for us. We have also developed programs though which we've identified certain rules to hone in on some particular behaviours. Most of t