Mr. Speaker, an expert on money laundering has been quoted in news reports today as calling Canada the Maytag of the north, well known to terrorists and other criminals as a good place to launder money.
The justice minister and the finance minister both assured us that the government had the legal power to seize and freeze the financial assets of bin Laden and other terrorists. If that was the case, will the Prime Minister explain why this new bill changes the very law that his government said had the powers already?