Can you confirm to this committee that through the investigative process, whether it's following organized crime or whether it just leads from another investigation, or some tips, or whatever information you happen to receive, there have been cases where the RCMP has been forced to wait, knowing full well that people were in possession of these materials, until the activity actually began?
For example, they may have moved into a neighbourhood, occupied a home or a building for the purposes of production, then disappeared again, putting everybody in the area at risk. How often has it happened that you have known full well that the players involved or some of the players involved were in possession of either the equipment or the precursor materials and have actually had to wait? Has that happened?
This law would address your ability, if you were able to prove intent, to stop that activity from happening and the risk to the people in the proximity of that lab from increasing.