There are two separate dimensions to your question.
You'll see that in my submission, I actually suggest that the new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians and the new national security intelligence review agency, as well as the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP, all have mandates to ask precisely these sorts of questions. NSIRA will have the mandate, provided the legislation passes.
I think your question is dead on. These are exactly the questions parliamentarians need to be asking of the organizations. What are the specific problems internally, and why is information not moving? There are actually significant amounts of data that move from FINTRAC to the RCMP. The challenge, it seems, is translating that into actual prosecutions. The RCMP will tell you that the data is also used for other purposes, such as for purposes of disruption. We also can see that when charges are laid with regard to proceeds of crime or money laundering, those are often the first charges dropped by the prosecution when the case actually proceeds.
Yes, there are coordination issues here, but there are also significant issues with acting on precisely the data that is provided. That gets to a previous question about the Government of Canada's data analytics generally. They do poorly. The one agency that actually does it and does it well is the Communications Security Establishment. There's a general challenge around skill sets and the ability to share and to actually translate that.
Of course, then we need to make sure that we have more people around the table. FINTRAC has essentially integrated itself. They have people from Revenue Canada and other agencies. In practice, we need to change the collaboration between the intelligence side and the law enforcement side. I also bring the precedent on the terrorism side, where we have actually figured out how to do this. The problem is that on the financial intelligence side, much of the legislation with regard to FINTRAC is so restrictive that it makes it very difficult to engage in the type of sharing your question suggests would be necessary to make sure that we actually have more prosecutions. It's also about the broader question of asset forfeiture and being able to identify beneficial ownership.
There are lots of things we can do. We're not going to arrest our way out of this problem. If we think that's the solution, we're never going to get there. We need to have a much broader preventative space, and that means making the whole matter much more transparent and also giving law enforcement better tools in the act, as I suggest here, with regard to specific U.S. precedent for how this can be done.