Thank you, Minister.
My question has to do with your response with respect to the definition of criminal organization. I'm not privy to meetings with the provincial attorneys general, but I believe it has been raised that the definition is not as flexible as prosecutors would like. They talk about the difficulty in seeing material benefit, for instance, in some of the acts that are done.
These crimes can be premeditated. Quite often they're done for vengeance or retribution. Unless there's a broadening of the definition, it's difficult to see that a drive-by shooting, which intends to kill or seek retribution against a particular target, is a material benefit. This traps the section in question. This could easily be remedied, and it may be being worked on right now, probably in the bowels of the justice department. Maybe I didn't read it right, but it looked as if the first-degree murder offence for a drive-by shooting still requires the perpetrator to belong to a criminal organization. And I believe there has to be some proof that there's a material benefit.
Am I reading this too finely?