Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank each one of you for the work you do every day. We appreciate your expertise at the committee.
Your department has published a paper with regard to our work, which has been very helpful, and I know that you have to work with the government if there are going to be any legislative changes, so I'm not going to ask you at this point about any of them, but right now Canadians are under obligations on sanctions, for example. If a group or a person has been named under our economic sanctions and a financial institute or someone who is under the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism funding regime works with them, that could be punishable under a variety of different statutes. It's the same, obviously, with the anti-terrorism compliance.
One of the challenges we've heard—these are the current rules—is there is no consolidated list. Global Affairs handles some of the sanctions. You handle some other ones. Is there no ability for your department to work productively within current laws to make this easier, so that people who are working in this industry every day can quickly and accurately check to see if the people they are dealing with are not going to get into trouble?