Thank you for your question.
I think all these problems related to the legal profession are important.
The Supreme Court decision says that adding lawyers as reporting entities for the purposes of the act is not legal. That being said, the Supreme Court nonetheless left the door open to finding a mechanism that aligns with the Canadian constitution.
Since that decision was handed down, the Department of Finance has been working closely with the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.
Because it is the federation that publishes the guidelines, we are working with it to make sure those guidelines are harmonized with the recommendations of FATF, the Financial Action Task Force, to make sure the profession is properly regulated, in a sense, when it comes to international standards.
Even though lawyers are not reporting entities for the purposes of the act at present, there are initiatives and measures in place to take into account the risks inherent in the profession.