Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witness for his attendance today.
Similar to some other members of the committee, I'm slightly troubled by some of your comments, and I thought I should get a little more detail.
We heard from federal prosecutors. If I heard your evidence correctly, you indicated that prosecutors were not asking for this type of legislation. That is not my recollection. I heard prosecutors tell me that they take weeks, sometimes months, with complicated expert testimony to establish the existence of a criminal organization. My recollection of the evidence from the crown's side is certainly different from your reading of it. I think that might have been mentioned on the other side.
In any event, today you're regarding this as not being necessary. That may or may not be true, and there may be other ways of doing it with respect to affidavit evidence. But what is the downside in doing what law enforcement and the crown prosecutors are asking, which is to take what is seen as the big hurdle in these mega-trials, the establishment of the criminal organization?