Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for coming here today.
Some of us have been on the justice committee for quite a while, we've been around the country a little bit, and we get a lot of issues. We understand the need to tackle the disclosure issue, so I won't dwell on it. We understand that it's an issue that probably can be helped with legislative intervention. We get that.
We definitely get the idea that technology is surpassing law enforcement's ability to keep up and that something has to be done about it. Please don't think that I'm not asking about it, that I don't care, or don't understand it.
We also get that prevention, early intervention, and tackling mental health issues, which are often intertwined with recidivist crime and so on, are extremely important. But I'm not concentrating on those today.
I'm going to be rather surgical in asking specific questions of specific witnesses, so please understand that we think there are some great ideas here. This mortgage fraud reform seems very pertinent and is something that can be done.
But two specific things struck me, and I'd like to give you the time to flesh them out. Chief Hanson in particular, you spoke of—I didn't write this down perfectly—the national cybercrime unit. It sounds to me, from Mr. Gibson's testimony, like you have a great precedent here in Alberta. We've been in other places where the silos are still pretty strong, but the ALERT example sounds pretty good.
It sounds to me as though in Alberta you have the “working together” thing going pretty well, so maybe you have really good evidence to give us. What would this look like? How would it help? Who do you see being part of it?