One aspect of the report that we haven't really heard about is the international side of organized crime, and I have put in the suggested witnesses. For example, we could hear from CSIS. They have a transnational criminal activity unit that deals with transnational crime, as the name implies. That might be a good start.
A second aspect we heard some testimony about was firearms. The guns seem to come from the United States, according to the testimony we heard. It might benefit the committee to hear from someone like the Department of Homeland Security in the United States on how they work with Canadian officials to try to combat the trade in illegal firearms.
Third, I had suggested a couple of European witnesses, namely the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom and the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. There is no magic to those two suggestions; it's just that I've read their reports, which seem to be quite comprehensive. They deal with many of the issues that have been raised here in Canada, such as dealing with guns, illegal gambling, and drug offences.
Interestingly, Sweden also talks about obstruction of justice as an organized crime element. We heard a little bit about that with the witness protection program from the RCMP, which is trying to combat threats made to potential witnesses in organized crime prosecutions.
The only other aspect that I had raised was legal aid. We've heard a little bit from Mr. LeSage about mega-trials, which are very lengthy and very expensive. Legal aid is often called upon to fund the defence of those accused in mega-trials. They seem to be buckling under the strain. So we might want to hear from Legal Aid Ontario or legal aid in Quebec--it doesn't really matter, necessarily--who have had experience with mega-trials, on how they fund the defence in those cases.