I think that's definitely one. As for the complexity of investigating serious commercial crimes, to get back to the sentencing and the sentences in the U.S., compared to the that, the sentences in Canada are pathetic.
We have a lot of cross-border interaction with our partners in the U.S. For possession of a significant amount of drugs, for instance.... I realize this isn't the fraud question you are asking about, but sentences relate to this, as they relate to fraud as well; that is, you can make big money in Canada committing a fraud, and the sentence you get is a joke. You don't have to look farther than Earl Jones in the east. He's going to be walking away in 20 months, he's going to be a rich man, and he's going to leave a trail of victims behind him.
We forget in sentencing that a person in Canada generally has to serve only one third or one sixth of their sentence. When it comes to sentences for drugs, it's the same thing. A person will get a 25-year sentence in the U.S. for a crime that in Canada would mean three and a half years. It happens all the time. Unfortunately, people still say we're filling up our jails. We are--with the wrong people.
When it comes to white-collar crime especially, it's viewed as victimless. It's not. If you're an old person who has just spent your entire income on fixing your house, and renovations were never completed or were done shoddily because they were done by a company that defrauded the homeowner, you're a victim. Yet the risk to the person committing that crime is minor; he probably won't even get time in jail, and if he does, it's insignificant.
Again, it's balancing off the level of victimization versus this idea that some crimes are victimless crimes because there isn't a dead body in the street.