Finance committee  I would say the vast majority of reports come from companies, whether they are banks, credit unions, casinos, real estate agents, or dealers in precious metals and stones. Of course there may be some individuals who have their own companies and who are operating as individuals as opposed to corporations, but the vast majority come from financial institutions.

Finance committee  They are reporting according to the requirements set in the law on suspicious transactions, cash transactions over $10,000, and so on.

Finance committee  To the international...no, it's “may”. What the law says is we “may” disclose to a foreign party.

Finance committee  I don't have those numbers. I may receive many suspicious transactions on the same individual or the same company, and so on, so it's very difficult for me. I can say that typically we will produce roughly about 600 cases a year. A case can involve thousands and thousands of transactions--EFTs mostly, suspicious transactions.

Finance committee  Certainly from a detection point of view, it's very difficult to know what you don't know. I can say with confidence that we've certainly increased the number of cases we've detected. We've gone from an average of maybe 165 over five years to now over 600. We're detecting a lot of cases, and we're detecting a lot more companies that are involved.

Finance committee  I can't, I'm sorry.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  We must disclose to police forces when we—

Finance committee  Or even if they request information from us, we are not obligated to provide the information. We decide.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  If I don't have any transactions, I can't. No, I would not. I cannot divulge it.

Finance committee  If I do not reach the threshold, I have no information in my database on which to make a reasonable ground to suspect money laundering.

Finance committee  I may have interpreted “whistleblowing” as informants from the outside, public informants.

Finance committee  Your question was on how many.

Finance committee  We probably receive about 60 voluntary information records a year from the public on money laundering cases.