Well, to begin with, these issues didn't actually arise early on in our consultations and discussions about where we should go for identity theft. More importantly, they did arise at a later date after we were well on our way with the package of amendments you see in front of you.
I suppose the main reason we didn't focus too much on these is because it's our understanding that these offences are not actually charged. Title fraud, mortgage fraud--they're all charged as fraud. So there are quite a number of very distinct, specialized offences in the Criminal Code that prohibit subsets of larger, more generically defined offences.
Industry associations typically zone in on those offences, the specific ones that apply to their activities, and say they'd like to see this modernized, they'd like to see this address their particular issues. But what we hear over and over again from law enforcement as well as the prosecutors is that they really don't pay any attention to those offences; they always charge under the more general offences, because those general offences are easier to prove. Proving fraud is actually easier than proving title fraud, because you don't have to prove the extra elements that are specific to title fraud. So from a law enforcement perspective, the focus is always on the more general offences, which is where we tend to devote most of our attention.