My program staff are very engaged with their provincial and municipal counterparts.
In some cases, we already have mutual aid agreements in place. A number of provinces have signed memoranda of understanding regarding either the management of a particular case or the rules and procedures for co-operation. It's important to understand that a criminal case involving an asset is ever-changing. The process can be initiated with the expectation that it will take place at the federal criminal level, but the outcome can be completely unexpected. The asset may indeed be seized, but by another authority.
Therefore, we need to make sure we dovetail our approaches. The support being proposed is very much in line with the active co-operation that already happens between municipal, provincial and federal police authorities. They, too, work together very closely to determine how best to pursue the investigation.