It's a very open-ended question. The reason I tilted my head was that I hadn't given it that broad a thought.
I would start by saying, as you've probably heard in the testimony, how many aspects of Driver Inc. are involved—insurance, tax fraud, employment fraud and health and safety—and how many different agencies are involved. In terms of the worst aspects of Driver Inc., it's certainly been a very big pathway to organized crime entering Canada and the trucking industry. The question is, do we have adequate laws to deal with such a nexus of a problem, as they do, I would say, in the United States, where they have racketeering laws?
That would be one of the things I would think the committee should probably consider. This is such a broad base. It attacks here and there. Do we have the tools in Canada to address something that is really a racket? They're doing not just one thing; they're committing a multitude of crimes, a little here, a little there and using people.
Do we have those tools in Canada to deal with such a complex network or scheme to defraud citizens and to abuse employees? When I think about it, if that's really a consideration, perhaps there has to be even more inquiry done, beyond the committee, into the industry, to try to clean up the bad actors. Again, it has bad repercussions for international trade, not just within Canada.
