It's FINTRAC.
Evidence of meeting #64 for Status of Women in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was data.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #64 for Status of Women in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was data.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:25 p.m.
Chief of Analysis Unit, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Statistics Canada
It's FINTRAC.
May 4th, 2023 / 5:25 p.m.
Chief of Analysis Unit, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Statistics Canada
I suspect FINTRAC is collecting it, because they are focusing their investigative efforts on people who are doing criminal activity. They are following financial transactions and are able to calculate it. I believe that's where you're getting those data points from.
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NDP
Lindsay Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe, ON
The federal government would have to look at those services. Could it rely upon those FINTRAC services in order to get the data and to better inform the legislation that it would need to put forward?
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Chief of Analysis Unit, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Statistics Canada
I couldn't comment.
I know that FINTRAC has done some great work in tracking human trafficking people and how they spend their money. They have followed their transactions and have come up with some great studies, but I couldn't get into the details.
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NDP
Lindsay Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe, ON
That's fair enough.
Perhaps I could recommend that if they're not already a part of the list of witnesses, maybe some of that information could be submitted to the committee.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Karen Vecchio
That's such a good idea. This is the way we work in London. We just look at it and say, “Okay, we've got it. All right.”
On behalf of the committee, I would really like to thank the witnesses for coming forward and providing this important information.
I have just a couple of notes for our committee members.
I'm going to remind everybody that for the study we'll be starting on mental equity, we've pushed the request for witnesses back to May 12, so could everybody have the names of their witnesses, and their contact information, by noon next Friday?
Second, the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth has accepted our invitation, and we'll be studying the main estimates on Thursday, May 18, for the first hour.
Seeing there are no more questions or comments, it looks like it's time to go.
Today's meeting is adjourned.