Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister and your officials, for your attendance here this morning. Once again, thank you, Minister, for promoting your very aggressive safe street and safe community agenda.
We've dealt with a number of pieces of legislation in this committee--Bill C-14 with respect to organized crime and Bill C-15 with respect to mandatory sentences for those who traffic in narcotics. Now we're dealing with identity theft, a bill that originated in the Senate and is now before the House of Commons justice committee.
With respect to your overall anti-organized crime agenda, we've certainly heard anecdotally and otherwise that identity theft is the crime of the 21st century. You indicated in your comments that often law enforcement has a difficult time keeping up to advances in organized crime, with technology and high-tech devices, the Internet, and so on.
Mr. Minister, can you tell us specifically how Bill S-4 deals with the government's overall strategy and its motivation to combat criminal activity and organized crime?