Finance committee  To my knowledge, we don't have any direct relationship with the revenue agency of Quebec. If we did have any relationship or involvement with them, it would be through the Sûreté du Québec. I would like to highlight that we have an excellent relationship with the Sûreté du Québ

Finance committee  I can't give a percentage of our budget that's committed. We're an organization of over 30,000 employees, so our informatics systems are extensive. We have our police reporting and occurrence system, and we maintain the Canadian Police Information Centre on behalf of all police s

Finance committee  From a law enforcement financial crime perspective, the countries we regularly deal with--the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand--are what I call the like-minded countries. We approach our investigations in a lot of the same ways. Our methodology for investi

Finance committee  I can't say specifically. I haven't looked at Latin America specifically in recent years. We have great cooperation throughout Latin America. We have a foreign liaison officer program in the RCMP. We have liaison offices based in a number of Latin American countries--in Brazil,

Finance committee  From a law enforcement perspective, we work actually quite closely with the Competition Bureau in a number of different ways. But in an example like that, there's obviously a fraud investigation to be carried out. That is something we do regularly in Quebec police forces jurisdic

Finance committee  From a law enforcement perspective, potentially, I'm not aware of any law enforcement groups that currently exist under the G-20. I'm only aware of the one that exists under the G-8. I think right now between the G-8 and the broad spectrum of working groups related to law enforc

Finance committee  Absolutely. I think any form that would enhance or expand international law enforcement cooperation would be very beneficial.

Finance committee  We receive a complaint. If we identify that it relates to tax evasion, we would refer it to the Canada Revenue Agency.

Finance committee  We consider them to be the primary agency to deal with matters related to tax evasion. They have access to a lot of information that we as police would not have. It's basically the background related to taxation revenue of particular individuals.

Finance committee  In guess in today's environment I would say nothing is exact. Whether it's individuals or whether it's organizations, there are a number of different ways they become engaged in laundering their funds, whether it's trying to integrate them into a banking system here in Canada, ca

Finance committee  I wouldn't say it's a grey area. Legitimate businesses use offshore bank accounts all over the world. Because those financial systems and mechanisms exist, criminals can leverage that same environment in offshore bank accounts. When they do so in tax havens, it's that much more b

Finance committee  I can't give examples of legitimate companies. Drug trafficking organizations often open up their own businesses to facilitate money laundering activity. They can run a quasi-legitimate business, take their proceeds from drug trafficking, and mix that money with legitimate income

Finance committee  In terms of the issue with individual or national securities regulators--again, obviously, a bigger policy issue for the Government of Canada--our interest comes in terms of sharing of information, exchange of intelligence. If we only have to go into one location or go into multi

Finance committee  I wouldn't be able to give a percentage. Do we have cases? Yes. Proceeds from criminal activity are housed in bank accounts and tax havens. We also have a lot of criminal activity where criminals move their funds offshore to non-tax havens as well. So it's a mix.

Finance committee  Yes, definitely. It's a mix. In a lot of them we have laid charges. In some of them we don't lay charges for whatever reason. We can't just get to the necessary threshold of evidence that we need, but we still have identified enough evidence that we think we can refer it to the C