My third question has to do with the exemption the lawyers have. When this legislation was originally passed by the LIberal government, it was fairly tight vis-à-vis the law society and the lawyers. Yet as I understand it, the law society went to court and succeeded in preserving for themselves a solicitor-client protection.
Now, as I understand the proposal, it is essentially a “know your client” idea. What puzzles me is a lawyer who is intentionally or unintentionally complicit in these kinds of serious transactions. Typically, certainly in the case of organized crime, it's a small law firm with a single practitioner, or two or three, and the client is well known in the area of organized crime—that's what the lawyer does; he defends this particular individual from prosecution in organized criminal activity.
What I don't understand is how this kind of legislation is going to capture the intentional or unintentional complicit activity on the part of the member of the law society.