Finance committee  Provincial law societies now are well equipped to police their members, to verify what their members are up to. They do audits, as I'm sure the member knows.

Finance committee  I am Yvon Carrière. I'm senior counsel with FINTRAC. All law societies in Canada have enacted rules that prohibit their members from receiving more than $7,500 per file. That's not a Department of Finance regulation; that's a rule that was enacted by each individual provincial l

Finance committee  I understand that the rules passed by the individual law societies exclude certain amounts of cash. I think they focus mainly on cash received as an intermediary, not cash received as fees, bail, or certain other exclusion costs, court costs.

Finance committee  Again, I'm speaking from what I understand to be the provincial law society rules, not the federal government regulations. I understand that the prohibition against receiving cash applies to only certain types of cash. It doesn't apply to cash received as fees or bail. That's my

Finance committee  That's correct. Those rules, I understand, apply only to prohibition from receiving certain types of cash, not cash received as fees or bail.

Finance committee  My understanding is that these provincial rules do not apply to paralegals. Certainly the regime as it stands now does not apply to paralegals.