Thank you very much.
Thank you for coming. It's great to have your experience and views.
I'm going to tell you the first part where you haven't convinced me, and then the part where I'd like to do some further study.
I'm not so convinced by what was said before, and just repeating the same arguments. As Mr. Thompson said at one of our meetings, if it's not broke, don't fix it. We haven't really had any evidence from any witnesses that I can remember that there are problems. But we did discuss at an earlier meeting--one of you brought it up--having another review after this one, because there is not that much evidence in it. I'm quite sympathetic toward having that in another three or five years, or whatever.
I think there is possible jeopardy at the beginning and at the end process for infringement on civil rights. At the moment I'm not convinced that we should do it at the first of the project, as I mentioned in other meetings, because organized crime can be so insidiously infiltrated and I wouldn't like to have any more options for them to actually find out what's happening.
I have the same problem with reporting at the end of the process. Good intelligence just helps them prepare, but we don't know how many people are designated. Most of the events aren't eligible to go in the report, so we don't know a lot.
I was intrigued, Mr. Barrette, by your idea of having an in camera session of parliamentarians. The other thing I liked was the idea of having a consolidated report, because we have to go to all the agencies in the country--I think we had this problem in one of our earlier meetings--all levels of government, and all the police forces to find all the reports. That's a little work.
So if we were to make a little progress and have an in camera committee of parliamentarians to look at all of those things that are not actually in the reports now--the number of designated officers, the actual identification of every event--to see how it's working, would you find that at least a small step forward?