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Justice committee Thank you. We have about 40 to 50 tactical analysts and probably about 10 to 15 people working on strategic analysis in FINTRAC. If you want an explanation, tactical intelligence is basically looking at specific cases, names, addresses, that kind of thing, information that woul
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee We have systems, of course, that help us do this analysis. We receive about 6,500 reports a day, and as my colleague has mentioned and as Madame Goulet has mentioned, there are a variety of them. They include suspicious transactions, large cash transactions, cross-border transact
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee Sixty-five thousand a day.
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee It so happens that the information we get is provided by the casinos, that are required to report on the purchases that gamblers can make. Furthermore, since September 28, 2009, we have been receiving the casino disbursement reports. This is an instrument that now allows us to co
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee At present, we have with our international partners 62 memorandums of understanding relating to intelligence sharing and this allows us to extend our detection network to the international scale.
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee That includes the international wire transfers.
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee The information that comes to us is basically on financial transactions, and we have the capability to make judgments about those financial transactions. And when we reach reasonable grounds to suspect money laundering or terrorist financing, there are different patterns that are
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee We would disclose to police on the basis of the various sections of the law that basically identify reasonable suspicions for one and the other, and if it was information that came from us, we originated the case, we would provide the information to a police force as well as CSIS
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee Yes. CSIS would get it in those cases where we believe there's a threat to the security of Canada.
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee “Appropriate police forces” is what the legislation says, and that would mean the police force of jurisdiction where we believe the suspected activity is taking place.
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee It would go to the RCMP in those cases where, let's say, the RCMP has provided us with voluntary information about a particular investigation. We would provide that to the RCMP, and if we felt it was important for the Toronto Police Service to get it, we would ask the RCMP for pe
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee We have a breakdown actually that doesn't identify CSIS, or whatever, publicly. We've published the percentage that would go to.... Yes, I have it here. I can tell you that last year--
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee This is 2008 and 2009--our fiscal year. These are packages, disclosures packages. So the totals do not add up to 100%, but 68% went to the RCMP, 27% to the Canada Revenue Agency, 27% to municipal police forces, 17% to foreign financial intelligence units, 14% to the Canada Border
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee With respect to tactical, we have a lot of people who have come from the private sector, from banking institutions. We have people with post-graduate degrees in economics, business analysts, people in government, people who are experienced investigators--
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier
Justice committee Yes, we do. Actually, most of my managers are lawyers. And with respect to tactical, we have PhDs in mathematics and economics. On the strategic side....
April 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Denis Meunier