Thank you very much. I have five minutes? This will be very brief. Perhaps I'll share the time allotted to me with one of my colleagues, if I don't need five minutes.
The question will be for Mr. Todd or perhaps Mr. Michel Aubin. I'm going to repeat roughly the same terms as Mr. Ménard used earlier in citing an example. Recently, there has been talk about the construction industry, which appears to be infiltrated by organized crime. If members of organized crime infiltrate the construction industry, it's because they want to launder money that comes from prostitution, theft, drugs, cigarettes and so on. So they need a vehicle in order to enter a group and launder their money.
We've also learned that they are infiltrating not only large groups, but also groups that in some cases consist of employers, union officers, sometimes people who contribute to democracy in Canada in various forms. We see organized crime entering very quietly by the back door and moving up. In some cases, that can even cause much more serious problems. As someone said earlier—I don't know if it was the representative of the Ottawa police—there are intimidation problems. Someone may be afraid; even a politician may be afraid. We saw what happened in Italy. Everything started in the construction industry and, following Operation Clean Hands, the affair went as far as a judge of the Italian Supreme Court, who was involved in all kinds of events. He was not the only one; a number of judges were involved.
Bill C-14 provides protection for politicians, police officers and people who will have to take action to combat organized crime, and so on. Do you think this protection is enough today? I have some doubts, even though we are proposing the legislation. In 1975, an investigation was conducted into construction. It was said that would never occur again. Now this is 2009, 33 years later, a generation later, and organized crime is still involved in construction. That's why I'm asking you whether you find the bill we are trying to present to you satisfactory or whether it's just a little part of what can be done.