Mr. Speaker, I will try to get back to the topic of debate today. I am wondering if the member might have thoughts on either of the two subjects I will mention.
In terms of confiscation of the proceeds of crime, before we enact legislation the state or the government would want to give an eye to how the state does it. In other words, we would want the procedures to be charter proof and have a reasonable amount of fairness even though we are dealing with organized crime proceeds and organized criminals.
I am just wondering how far we would track that money, those proceeds of crime. An example came up earlier. If a hospital foundation had received some bundles of money out of the organized crime envelope, how much knowledge would the charity need to have before we actually confiscated the money? Is this something we should be paying attention to as we develop the legislation?
Second, we have a government agency called Fintrac, which now, on a relatively covert basis, tracks all significant financial transactions in the country. I am wondering whether or not the member feels we should be marshalling all the resources of government, including agencies like Fintrac, to be part of this organized crime initiative. Some taxpayers will say yes. Others will say that we should be careful how we do it and how much of the resources of the state we use in various ways in relation to citizens.
Could I ask him for his comments on those two sidebar issues?