If I may, Mr. Chair, the first thing is that FINTRAC receives information that is provided by the different financial sectors in Canada. We do not have the means technically or legally to access the bank accounts of Canadians. All the information that is provided to us comes from the businesses based on a certain number of criteria, either objective criteria, transactions that are higher than $10,000 for electronic fund transfers, because you know disbursements of higher than $10,000.... So the first thing is that we do not have direct access to the financial information.
On March 24th, 2015. See this statement in context.