I was in the House when Allan Rock introduced Bill C-95. I was there during consideration of Bills C-24 and C-36. I represent eastern Montreal. At one time, organized crime was very active there. The car bomb that killed 13-year-old Daniel Desrochers exploded in my riding.
This attack is behind my interest in fighting organized crime. In my opinion, the role of this committee is to determine whether the provisions we adopted creating exceptions... You have a number of other tools before having recourse to these provisions.
When Bill C-95 was under consideration, there were 33 outlaw motorcycle gangs in Canada. Can you give us any information on how such provisions were used to take down organized crime networks? Has the situation improved significantly? Based on the way things were in 1995, could we say that Canada has succeeded to some extent in curbing this threat?
Perhaps you are not the best person to ask. Other people are perhaps more knowledgeable about how these networks operate but, in my opinion, there is a direct link between these provisions and the effective presence of organized crime in Canada.