The law societies are looking at enforcement of the rules that actually replicate or mirror what is contained federally. Rather than having enforcement occur through that vehicle, law societies are charged with enforcement, and those are things like cash and money laundering.
The other area of enforcement is to ensure that lawyers' trust accounts are not used for purposes other than the provision of actual legal services. As we indicated, the majority of Canadian lawyers are already governed by a rule in that regard, and, indeed, there have been prosecutions of lawyers who have used their trust accounts for purposes other than the delivery of legal services, in other words as repositories of money inappropriately. The proposed new rules would provide that all law societies will adopt a rule that will prohibit lawyers from using their trust accounts for purposes other than connected with the delivery of actual legal services. That, I think, will be an important thing to bear in mind, and the law societies will be looking for enforcement of those issues.
The issue or challenge generally with respect to the role of corporations in money laundering is that if a lawyer sets up a corporation, that corporation is a legitimate way of doing business. The lawyers can be acting completely appropriately. The corporation goes off and does its business. The lawyer has no subsequent involvement necessarily with that corporation in terms of its transaction. So arguably the responsibility for looking at those corporate structures as vehicles of illegal activity rests through the corporate registry structure.