No, Mr. Shean is entirely right. I don't believe it's just the construction industry. It is a well-known organized crime technique to slip into, to enter an industry by the front door, then to expand its field of action using its own techniques. This method is known around the world with regard to organized crime.
In my opinion. and as Mr. Shean said, this bill should be linked to other aspects that Mr. Cabana mentioned last week before this committee. When you talk about lawful access, disclosure, information sharing, these are all aspects that are necessary to the law enforcement system, to the judicial system, so that we have the necessary tools to attack organized crime, while respecting human rights, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, it has to be acknowledged that organized crime, particularly in the case of well organized groups, has this ability to intimidate, to corrupt. If we don't have the tools, we won't be equipped to attack it comprehensively.
With respect to disclosure—that was mentioned earlier—it has to be acknowledged today that what the court requires in terms of disclosure, the necessary evidence against a criminal organization, is so voluminous that it is very difficult for police departments and prosecutors to manage that evidence so as to lead tos a complete prosecution and, ultimately, to a charge against a criminal organization. What is unfortunate is that, when a criminal organization is recognized as such at a particular location, in a certain province—as was the case of Lindsay and Bonner in Ontario, where the Hell's Angels were recognized as a criminal organization—it is all the more necessary since that organization is recognized in the same way elsewhere in Canada, without us having to prove it again.