Mr. Chair, I have certainly followed the debate over the last few hours. It has taken a swing into areas where criminality is associated with the credit card industry.
Much of what is happening today, and I can attest to this because I have been involved in a number of very specialized police conferences to deal with organized criminal activity, is that organized criminal activity is operating extensively in this country, by foreign criminals, I might add. Many of them have come here with an agenda of their own. They have entered this nation one way or another to fulfill that very special agenda they have.
One of the issues is the whole area of identity theft by organized criminal activity. There have been criminals caught in this country with 150, 200, 300 credit cards which belong to people who are part of the citizenry of this country. Some of those cards have been sent overseas and are used overseas. There is not a section in the Criminal Code that deals specifically with that.
I know that the government is aware of that. The Liberals are very much aware of it, as are the police in this nation. The police have been pressing the government to do something about it, but there is no specific charge that deals with that. Yes, maybe they could try for conspiracy, but it is very difficult to prove conspiracy. They would have to go through this whole issue of intent and then what would they end up with, after a lot of police and government resources are used?
When is the government planning to put forward some very specific legislation to deal with identity thieves, especially the organized ones?