The Auditor General made a number of recommendations. For those that were government-wide, I'll set them aside for the moment, if I can. For those that were specifically focused at FINTRAC, the Auditor General was critical of FINTRAC's ability, if you will, to disclose more information to law enforcement.
What we did in response to that was to work with law enforcement, security agencies, as well as the Department of Finance to come up with proposals--some were legislative--that if Parliament agrees, would enable FINTRAC to disclose more information to make them more useful to law enforcement.
I don't think they're not useful to law enforcement now, but there are difficulties. They referred to issues that law enforcement may have with disclosures we make for money laundering, where because we're not an investigative agency, we may not, for example, know the predicate offence. For law enforcement to investigate and lay charges, they have to know the predicate offence.
Looking at the financial transactions themselves, we may never know the predicate offence. When we pass disclosures that link money laundering networks to law enforcement, there are some times, for example--and this is a small example--when we can make connections on the basis of something like a telephone number. We cannot now disclose to law enforcement how we made that connection.
So there are proposals--they were put forward in the white paper that was issued last June--and we are looking for some legislative amendments that would make it easier for us to disclose more complete information to law enforcement about what it is we're seeing and how we've made our connections.
There are some things that FINTRAC has done in the meantime. We've taken a look at our disclosure packages and have now included i2 charts with all the disclosures, where we draw the linkages for law enforcement in a picture. We've received very positive feedback from law enforcement on the use of that tool. Instead of just listing the financial transactions and where they took place, we actually include an i2 chart.