Thank you, Madam Chair.
To the witnesses, thank you for being here. I'll start off with a very recent and concerning example of what members of the Conservative opposition have been saying. The member for Carleton, Pierre Poilievre, has recently indicated that the RCMP were taking orders from the Prime Minister's Office and from ministers' offices. At a recent leadership event, Mr. Poilievre stated that he believed what he saw was the Trudeau government “seizing the bank accounts of political enemies”.
I wonder if you could comment on that. At last week's meeting, we had the pleasure of welcoming witnesses from FINTRAC and the Department of Finance, all of whom testified on the record that the government was in no way involved in the freezing of bank accounts directly, that it was the RCMP working to provide information to the banks, where necessary. I'm hoping you can clarify what the RCMP's role was in that, and also clarify, to the best of your ability, what the government's involvement, if any, was in the freezing of bank accounts.