Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for coming from British Columbia and making the sojourn to be with us today.
You mentioned a number of areas where FINTRAC can be utilized in a different way to serve more than it currently does. They do important work. I've floated the idea of allowing FINTRAC, legislatively, to aggregate its data, so that policy-makers such as you in British Columbia can see the overall picture of how many cash sales are being done, which are perhaps not being picked up by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or OSFI because they are provincially regulated mortgages.
I think that information is being collected now, but FINTRAC, legislatively, is not allowed to share information, beyond that for an individual case referred for investigation of terrorism, organized crime, or other money laundering. Would you be supportive, as a policy-maker from British Columbia, of seeing personal data being aggregated in such a way that it wouldn't affect any privacy laws but would give policy-makers such as you a better lens?