To answer the first question, any time that anybody is incarcerated for committing a criminal offence involving fraud, I would welcome that. I'm not an advocate of house arrest; it has to be institutional. But they should be included as well. And I think there should be a minimum with respect to fraud, because we all know in this room that all proceeds of crime enter, if you allow it, other criminal enterprise and activity. To me, if we can stop it at the source, certainly it would be advantageous. So no, I agree, and that should be the case as well.
In answer to the second question, the resources would be drawn from police officers who have the ability, the training, and the understanding of the Criminal Code in both criminal evidence and evidence management, and they would be drawn from across Canada for the purposes of setting up a national securities crime unit, independent and separate. So in each region one would be established and set up to work in harmony with the existing police resources and police services, yet they would be working directly with the victims of these crimes for the purposes of assessment, review, document preparation, and introduction into the police services having jurisdictional authority for the investigation.
You can take Toronto. With the current intake system that I had a major part in putting together, I had two people working there, and over the period of a year they would assess probably about a thousand occurrences, a thousand reports. This means that the two of them would have to assess each and every one of those reports before they were brought in.
So is it something that can be realistically accomplished? Yes, it is. But it all comes down to the resources of the people selected to perform the function. And I know there are people out there who have the ability to do this.