Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for the Department of Finance officials, so for Ms. Jacques or her colleagues.
Under regular legislation, financial institutions are somewhat accustomed to freezing accounts in cases of financial fraud, laundering of ill‑gotten gains or funding of criminal activity. In these cases, the normal procedure is to inform FINTRAC and wait for its response before unfreezing the accounts if necessary. As I said, this is all done under the regular legislation.
In my opinion, the order is written in a fairly vague way. I'd like to know whether the department has given clearer guidance to FINTRAC on how to deal with the freezing of accounts.