I spent the last two years dialoguing with the private sector mostly and with law enforcement on what they view as some of the issues with respect to not just counterterrorist financing and sanctions but anti-money laundering as well. I think there is a consensus among the groups I've talked to across the country that we need to have some sort of private and public partnership and that what we have done so far hasn't worked, for whatever reason, either globally or nationally, and that they feel they want to participate in the solution.
That solution, in my mind, is something whereby we would establish a financial crime centre of sorts and would have both sides of the table, as it were, sit down to come up with solutions, to study issues such as digital terrorism, which is new and which no one is really looking at. Canada could take the lead on this and come up with suggestions.
We also have a great need in this country for expertise to be developed in counterterrorism, and in sanctions law especially. We look to the United States for that type of expertise and we import it and actually pay to go to conferences all across the country, whereas we have people here and, believe it or not, we go to the United States to teach this.
I think it makes more sense for us to decide that we're going to keep that expertise in Canada and expand it and export it ourselves. If we had some sort of national crime centre wherein we had the expertise in the country, we could have conferences, we could teach the banks, we could take a leadership role, and we could just keep this in house.
I think that's a solution. It seems to be a solution that everyone I've talked to wants to see happen.