Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll be quick just to make sure that even the committee understands this. If we get a review period, it could be spent as a matter of moments in a committee, it could be another full hearing, it could be an hour, and it could be scoped down to any particular item.
This committee has dealt with previous legislation. I've passed many amendments to legislation that have been basically a two-year review. It then gives the opportunity, say, for example, for the main body to come back or for interests from the government to give an update so to speak.
We could literally spend a half an hour on something, we could pass it in moments, or we could have full hearings. It's now a choice and it gives the minister some powers—and I think there were some people critical of my description of the minister's powers in this. It's like a carrot and stick approach. We're watching, and if there's some good behaviour that comes along in front of us, we'll get a chance to review that.
I want to quickly transition, though, over to the effects of what we could do against organized crime in this bill. I had a single-event sports betting bill that narrowly failed in Parliament. It was less about betting on single sports than it was about getting rid of organized crime. In fact, we had ex-Interpol agents, ex-RCMP, ex-provincial police, in a series, who couldn't testify in their jobs but outside their jobs they were and had been working on it. The bill would have taken about $10 billion away from much of the organized crime that was going to human trafficking, including the sex trade. That would eliminate money laundering for a series of different issues related to everything from drugs to anything under the sun. The most lucrative aspect for organized crime is single-event sports betting, and it's a global phenomenon in a sense that it is being addressed.
I'll turn to Ms. Woodside here.
Considering that Canada just signed the EU trade agreement and that the EU is well-advanced on this, we're described as an outlier. Now there's a term called “snow washing” related to Canada. By taking these steps and others that you're proposing in front of this committee, do you think the legislation would remove Canada's stigma of at least being, I guess, in the doldrums of an advancement of getting to organized crime?