Well, your committee had a look at those provisions within the old Bill C-15, which specifically targets drug dealers and organized crime, people who are into the business of the grow ops for the purposes of trafficking. That's who that bill is targeted at.
You will hear others say that it's after somebody else, that it's after the poor individual who has become addicted or somebody who is experimenting with drugs. That's not what that bill was targeted at. That bill was targeted at drug dealers and it was targeted at organized crime. I've made that statement before.
They said we were going after people bringing drugs into the country. I can tell you what law enforcement agencies have told me: that the people who are in the business of importing drugs into this country are part of organized crime and they are part of the drug gangs. This is who we are dealing with in that particular piece of legislation.
Now, with respect to the grow ops, I hear from law enforcement agencies all the time. It's actually changing. Sometimes they're actually moving out of suburbs. They want to get out into the country where they can go about their business, they believe, with fewer prying eyes on what their activity is all about. But again, I have been told, and I believe it, that what comes out of these grow ops--marijuana--is the currency for bringing other very serious drugs into this country. That's the currency that is used.
So for people who are into the business of trafficking, people in the business of organized crime and people who are part of these drug gangs, we need to send a very clear message to them that they are looking at jail time. That's what they're looking at under that bill. I think it's a very reasonable approach to this, and it's a response to what we're dealing with. This is becoming a more sophisticated business all the time.
As I mentioned in answer to the question from Monsieur Ménard, for identity theft and auto theft, it's a more sophisticated business than it was 15, 20, or 30 years ago, and the laws have to keep up to date on these things. The world is changing and we have to make sure that the laws respond to the challenges.
As part of our efforts to respond to those challenges, we are doing so with that particular bill, so yes, I intend to reintroduce that bill. Even though you will hear critics say that we're after some poor guy with one plant, we're after those individuals who are into the business of trafficking. That's who we're targeting. Again, we will once again introduce that legislation.