I had an alarming situation happen between Christmas and the new year in a scenario exactly like the one I was talking about. A senior in my riding was defrauded. His wife found out about it and she contacted the local RCMP who said, “We have no way of returning that money to you. We cannot handle the investigation. There is no probability of your ever getting it back. Contact your member of Parliament and scream and holler. Hopefully he can do something.” So here I am, throwing it back publicly.
We need to address these situations, and I am just trying to get an honest answer. Are we going to be able to accomplish anything with all our different programs—your program and the support agencies that you rely on to give you the information? The banks didn't help. They sent the cheque or the draft over, and it's almost impossible to clean it up after the fact. That's what my concern is. We need to stop them before it's after the fact, and we need to have some way of alerting ourselves. Is there any way of alerting ourselves to these fraudulent people from overseas coming out with these programs and catching gullible persons?