Justice committee  Yes, and I stand with that.

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  According to the reports prepared by Criminal Intelligence Service Canada, every major criminal group in the world has a branch in Canada. If I were in your shoes, I would ask why they love Canada, why we have all those people in Canada. This is a criminal microcosm, because we h

Justice committee  I welcome this question. I have a different approach to the problem. I believe the only way to fight criminal organizations is to take the money out of crime. There is no other alternative, because if you just arrest them and put them in jail, they put on their account the possib

Justice committee  I think we should focus continuously on organized crime. Quebec is a special society in that sense too, because it's the only one that is using the anti-gang legislation. It's the only one that is not afraid to target several members of organizations. The rest of the country i

Justice committee  The level of violence has decreased, but the main tool in fighting organized crime in Italy is seizure and confiscation of the proceeds of crime.

Justice committee  It has to do with a different type of criminal organization. There are criminal organizations that are territorialized; they control the territory, and what they want is to run the criminal activity. They don't want violence, because violence increases the scrutiny from police an

Justice committee  I agree with you. I think drug trafficking is the main source of income for criminal organizations. There are different levels of involvement in the narcotics trade. Criminal organizations such as the Mafia or the 'Ndrangheta are involved at the level of importation; motorcycle

Justice committee  I would like to focus more on the Mafia. I teach the history of the Mafia in an American college, at the military college, so I'm not familiar with the gangs or street gangs. I'm more familiar with the so-called traditional organized crime. The Mafia is actually based on functio

Justice committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable members of this committee, good afternoon. The last time I addressed this committee was in 2001. I remember we asked ourselves this question: why is organized crime afraid of American laws and borders and not afraid of ours? Since 2001 nothing has change