Part of the privacy protection measures incorporated in the bill is this idea that FINTRAC operate at arm's length from those receiving information from it.
The sources of information that FINTRAC can access are provided for in great detail in the act. So as the director mentioned, we can access data banks maintained by the federal or provincial government for law enforcement purposes. But aside from those data banks, we can't seek or collect information directly from members of law enforcement. This I think is part of the balance that was struck between the needs of law enforcement and the privacy concerns.