Thank you, Mr. Ménard.
Mr. Bartlett, I have a question.
I've now had the opportunity to attend three identity theft conferences put on by law enforcement. One of their main complaints when dealing with organized criminal activity, which really garners a lot of money through identity theft and the activity they engage in, which would be, if it's on the plastic side, for instance, false identifications or even those of known persons.... In some cases, they've been known to possess up to 150 different credit cards that are being used on a regular basis until they're of no value. Depending on the limits that are set on these things, it could generate a lot of money. In fact, I think there are multi-millions of dollars that are obtained through identity theft.
Law enforcement will catch these people with all of these credit cards in their possession. Law enforcement authorities complain that to actually convict them of an offence with all this plastic, the only opportunity they really have to convict is on the most recent use of that particular card they possess or that they were in possession of, and all the rest of the plastic, whether used or not, becomes redundant.
Of course, it's difficult to put a conspiracy charge together, if you will, that the intent of this person was to go into a broad conspiracy to steal money from institutions or whatever.
Does anything in this bill address that issue?