Justice committee  I agree with Mr. Bartlett: there are specialists, particularly in BLACO, the Bureau de lutte au crime organisé. There is also the BLPC, the Bureau de lutte aux produits de la criminalité. These enablers would offer their explanations. The problems are completely different, depend

Justice committee  This is connected with the factors I mentioned earlier. You always have to establish the connections among these people, their participation, each one's role and status. It is a little more obvious in the case of full patch members, because they often commit the acts we expect to

Justice committee  It all depends on the size of the organization. For the Hells Angels, there are expert witnesses who could tell you about that. We also have expert witnesses about biker gangs in our organization. For one witness in the box, as we say, it can take a week. And that is just to exp

Justice committee  Yes, it does in fact exist for the Crips, which is still a major group. This kind of initiation is also seen there, although it is different from the Hells Angels initiation. In fact, initiations take place for "full patch members", if I can put it that way, although it is not as

Justice committee  If I may, we are targeting street gang members' feeling of belonging. That feeling, regardless of the organization, sends a clear message, that being a member of a gang is not a problem. If we enacted legislation like this, clearly there would be no attraction in joining a gang,

Justice committee  Money is involved, but really it means resources to provide training, not just for police forces, but also for the people who support our work, including prosecutors. We see that at all levels, even for judges, knowledge about organized crime is very limited at present. The evide

Justice committee  It is difficult to determine. If we are talking about street gangs that commit traditional crimes, there are maybe 20 or so. We have to remember that there are also Asian criminal groups, and Middle Eastern, that are emerging now, and that police organizations have not tackled to

Justice committee  About the 40 factors, specifically in relation to organized crime, emphasis will be placed on the factors to be assembled to prove the case. It can be coded language, items of clothing, effigies, it's all part of the evidence—not part of the investigation—that has to be collected

Justice committee  First I will explain the principle of the substantive road, and then the money road. Each criminal organization has people, actors, who work at committing the targeted crime as such. So there are going to be roles, statuses, for each person, of course. Some of them will commit m

Justice committee  You are entirely correct to raise the question. It is very difficult. We were talking about this earlier in the corridor. In the case of street gangs, the problem is that they have truly unstable structures. This is totally different from the other criminal groups. I was telling

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. First, I have decided to go into a little more depth to expand on the presentations that have been made. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Denis Mainville. I have over 26 years' experience in the City of Montre