Mr. Chair, the member is correct that we would have started the preregistration process, but within a week there's only so much that can be done by way of registration. At the preregistration stage, anybody who or any platform or any payment service provider who pre-registered would have been in the position to report to FINTRAC if they had reasonable grounds to suspect that the money they were seeing was relevant to a money-laundering or terrorist-financing activity.
That being said, the goal of the emergency measures act was really to choke off the funding to what was determined to be the illegal blockades, and in fact it did serve its purpose. In—