Yes. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that.
I think people looked at money laundering as an abstract concept for quite some time. I'll speak about British Columbia. I think the “Dirty Money” report, the work the attorney general did here, and now the Cullen commission have made people realize that money laundering is the back office of organized crime. Organized crime exists to make money, and money laundering is the process by which they cleanse their money and get to use it.
If money laundering is the back office of organized crime, what does organized crime do? What commodities do they deal in? Illegal drugs.... If you look at downtown Vancouver, you see fentanyl. We are losing more people as a result of fentanyl deaths than we are from COVID—five a day here in Vancouver—and I know that we are losing people elsewhere in the country as well. That's the connection there. This is about organized crime. This is about making money from illegality of one sort or another, including drug trafficking, and people die as a result.