Health committee  Maybe I can start and I'll turn it to my colleague from the RCMP. I don't think it's one or the other. I think it's both. We are certainly seeing that there is domestic production, but then we are also seeing precursors come from other countries that have been mentioned, and th

Health committee  I'm not going to speak for the Canada Border Services Agency. What I'll say is that they're using a mix of tools, including all sorts of intelligence and working with other sorts of law enforcement in different countries. In terms of detection methods, you will find a lot of thes

Health committee  I understand it varies across the country, sir. I understand that in British Columbia, in Vancouver, it's $30 to $50 for a gram. The only other jurisdiction where I somewhat know the cost is Moncton, where its street value is $175 a gram. That's what I've heard. I'm not sure if m

Health committee  Thank you, Chair. Maybe I could add a few other comments to my colleague's views on this. I think the other thing in terms of the unpredictability around the how and the why is largely that it's a marketplace as well and there's a constant flow of sometimes poorly regulated c

Finance committee  Beneficial ownership is really the number one issue. There's lots of other good stuff going on globally. My colleague mentioned some of the other jurisdictions you're going to be visiting, Chair, as I understand it. There are lots of global efforts and international norms there f

Finance committee  As my colleague from the RCMP said, this is a world where money is very mobile, where crimes are changing dramatically and technology is enabling criminals to move money around. Just more generally speaking, if those two conditions were somehow eradicated, if we didn't have to wo

Finance committee  My colleague John Davies, in the national security area, is probably fairly up to speed on some of the specifics.

Finance committee  Unfortunately, it's out of my realm of professionalism to answer that. It's really a question for the Department of Finance to answer about the regulatory system and the management of the banking system.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to appear before the committee as you review the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. My name is Trevor Bhupsingh, and I'm the director general of law enforcement and borders at Public Safety Canada. With me tod

Justice committee  Why don't I start, and then I'll turn it to my colleagues? You mentioned the stats. Just to give you a sense, we talked about the body of human trafficking cases. Ninety five per cent of those are domestic cases and roughly 5% of them are international. The majority of the domes

Justice committee  I can just offer general comments. Yes, I think new encryption technologies cause difficulties by hiding a lot of this information that law enforcement or others might use in pursuing some of these investigations. In general, yes, I think it's difficult, but we're developing all

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  Again, it's just another situation where you may have individuals who are vulnerable largely because they don't have a support structure around them and who, in group homes, potentially could be convinced to traffic. In fact, we have heard of some cases where there have been pred

Justice committee  Potentially.... For the committee, Arachnid is basically an Internet web crawler that goes through and identifies images that have previously been identified to the Internet service provider as involving the sexual exploitation of children. The web crawler goes through and iden

Justice committee  I think one of the first things, which we've talked a little bit about, is really getting ourselves organized around the definition of human trafficking. We've heard this from the discussion just in terms of the collection of data and information. We want the advice that we're pr