Yes, I was at the electoral interference committee. I'm just responding to notices that I receive. I was actually pleasantly surprised to receive one from fisheries.
The Attorney General and I have both referred to our system as really one of whack-a-mole. You try to regulate one industry to deal with the money-laundering issue, and then it moves somewhere else. That's why a universal system, such as the one they have in the United States, where all cash transactions over a certain amount have to be reported to their financial intelligence agency, to my mind makes sense. We don't have that in Canada. You have this whack-a-mole phenomenon where organized crime will move to luxury goods, say, if things are difficult in casinos, or to cannabis sales. They keep on going.
With regard to boat sales, people laughed to a certain extent when we talked about money laundering through luxury cars, but then in our report, “Dirty Money—Part 2”, we looked at that phenomenon. I think we convincingly showed that organized crime was using luxury car sales to launder money. It was during that examination that we realized there were very similar parts of the economy where there was no reporting, one of them being boat sales. There's a lot of money tied up in boat purchases.
I can't speak specifically about fisheries vessels versus pleasure craft. We simply don't know. We don't know whose money is going into the purchase of boats, because it's not reportable. That's why I also noted earlier auction houses and so forth.