Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am not supportive of the federal financial crime agency proposal. I think it is not going to work and will not be effective.
My view is that you already have the RCMP there. The federal government should properly resource the RCMP to deal with this form of crime that we're talking about. The federal government does not have a natural constitutional role to investigate fraud and money laundering. That is a provincial responsibility.
With a financial crime agency, it would have to carve out a role as a national agency. With a proposed 150 resources—quite frankly, there were 200 resources working on one file in Vancouver on money laundering, so I don't think 150 spread across the country, taking away the back office that they require and the technical expertise, is the solution to what we're talking about here today.
I think the solution is about the fisheries officers themselves and linking up, as I mentioned in one of the recommendations, with those agencies that have the particular expertise. Creating a new agency, in my respectful opinion, is the Canadian answer, but it's not the right answer.