Thank you very much. I do not have enough time to express the high regard I have for these presentations. However, I would like to highlight the most interesting ones.
Mr. Shadgett, I really appreciated your presentation. You explained very well the position you occupy, how your organization fits into the system and I am convinced that you have the answers we are looking for. However, you spent very little time giving those answers. I agree with the last of the announced goals of your operation, which is to provide a coordinating mechanism for the police community and the government to work together to address organized crime problems. So you are well positioned to know these answers but you did not provide them.
I will discuss later with my colleagues to determine if it would be worthwhile to invite you to come back at some point to make a presentation on those.
I listened to the presentation of Mr. Davis and found it very credible also. Obviously, you could have provided a great amount of detail, but in view of the limited time available you stuck to the substantive points. But you still allowed us to get a better grasp of organized crime and of its huge diversity.
Among what other witnesses said, I took note of the fact that no longer is Toronto in the clutches of a handful of powerful families that control organized crime but that in fact there is a large number of organizations that are also very powerful in their own area of activity. There are obviously organizations active in many areas.
There is one aspect that others mentioned and that you did not raise, which is the existence of ethnic organizations, Russians, for example. Could you confirm or deny the information we have been given about the existence nowadays of many organizations that are structured based on national origin and therefore language?