Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for all the good work you folks are doing.
I was looking at the money laundering threat assessment and some of the things that were ranked as very high threat ratings. One that jumped out at me was pollution crime.
Before becoming a member of Parliament, I was involved in the fight to save Shawnigan Lake. There was contaminated soil being dumped close to a watershed. We know the impacts of this kind of contaminated soil on the environment and human health. Through that campaign, it was uncovered that the company had a secret profit-sharing deal with the engineers who were doing the safety assessments for it. Luckily, we were able to stop that from happening. It took four years.
I'm curious. What is the connection between money laundering and this kind of pollution crime?