The barriers are mostly a result of the number of files that keep coming in. There's a volume attachment to it. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre took over 100,000 reports last year alone. We've just revamped the public reporting page and we expect that to actually double now that it's become easier for folks to do that.
You gather as much evidence as you can. You put it over to the police of jurisdiction, wherever they might be, and then go after what you can and try to prosecute. Sometimes it's the gathering of that evidence that can be hindering because we're not able to get to it or it doesn't exist.
We do welcome the changes with FINTRAC getting more things that they will be collecting from the banks, which they will then be able to disclose to us. With any luck, we'll be able to translate those into investigative files that the police of jurisdiction or the federal financial crime units of the RCMP will be able to use.
