It's happened in the context of the fight against organized crime. We experienced it in Operation Wolverine, at the start, when we forced — that isn't too strong a word — police organizations to meet and exchange information. I'm not engaging in advertising, but I mentioned it in my book. We all work together, except that, in the case of a major operation where we manage to bring 90 or 100 individuals together, observe how the press conference takes place: all the officers put their uniforms on and it's a competition to grab the microphone to make a statement. Then people identify the police departments; they see red, blue and green, and they of course identify the RCMP. If someone from the RCMP speaks, then, in people's minds, it's the RCMP that did the work.
We'll really get total cooperation among all police departments the day we all dress in suits, like this morning, to step up to the mike and hold a press conference. At that point, people will say that it's the police that did the work. But we're still very far from that because there are also a lot of cultural differences between the federal and provincial levels. Computers don't communicate information in the prisons.
Let's talk about the federal parole system. An inmate is serving his first federal sentence and is eligible for accelerated parole review. He may have had five or six provincial convictions, and the federal level doesn't know it. The inmate is released, whereas he's on his sixth conviction, because the computers haven't transmitted the information. So there's a little work to be done in that area. There's no perfect model; we need men of good will so that we can hope to change the situation.
We're facing a challenge. Mr. Ménard mentioned section 467.13. I referred to Mr. Ciarnello. He challenged section 467.11 after winning his case against section 467.13. But as our police departments have trouble exchanging information among themselves, the attorneys have trouble as well. So when we manage to have people convicted, if the information isn't transferred to the Correctional Service, everyone has trouble. However, we have to continue working on that.