Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I share my colleagues' opinions and I believe that we have learned a great deal from you this morning.
I first want to ask a question of Inspector Perron. Perhaps the RCMP would then elaborate on the witness protection program, which I found very interesting.
Inspector, you talked about better coordination between federal prosecutors and provincial prosecutors, or at least a type of one-stop shop for colleagues who can be given conflicting advice in an investigation, which I'm sure can be anything but helpful. Other than the prosecutorial coordination or legal advice to investigating officers, which I think has a lot of merit and is very worthwhile, whether or not it's joint operations, are there are other ways to support forfeiture and seizures federally or provincially?
Are there ways that you can be more coordinated perhaps legislatively or at least in a police operation context? In other words, it's to avoid duplication. Your investigations are hugely expensive and complicated. I appreciate that. What can be done to in fact simplify or better coordinate and share resources?