Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate the comments from my colleague on the finance committee, who also in early October had a chance to hear FINTRAC's presentation in terms of where things have gone to this point and how we are actually getting better.
It gets back to these points. Where do we start? Is that enough? Do we continue to ensure that whatever legislation we are doing we get back to the point of ensuring that legislation stays one or two steps ahead of those who are intent on finding ways of breaking the law and laundering money?
To his point specifically about his past career in the legal profession, I can understand his concerns around whether or not he or his colleagues knew their clients, or whether all lawyers are in the process of understanding their clients, knowing their clients, or in some circumstances perhaps not knowing their clients. One word comes to mind in that respect . All of us as parliamentarians understand that we can introduce legislation but we cannot introduce accountability and ethics. Part of being professionals is knowing and understanding when something is going to happen or has happened, and we have or may have played a role in illicit and illegal activity, that we need to identify it.