Finance committee  I will not comment specifically on the attacks. What I can say, though, is that we did disclose information and the information we disclosed is either a series of transactions or it is information that the financial institution may report to us because it was suspicious. For exam

Finance committee  The issue is that FINTRAC is not an investigative body. Therefore, while we do receive information, we work with that information and then we disclose it to either CSIS, the RCMP, or local police forces. The fusion of what the financial transactions involve and what the enforceme

Finance committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, the first thing is that FINTRAC receives information that is provided by the different financial sectors in Canada. We do not have the means technically or legally to access the bank accounts of Canadians. All the information that is provided to us comes from

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  No. In fact the legislation has been designed specifically to ensure that FINTRAC is the only organization that can access that data holding. So neither the police forces nor CSIS have access to our database. That's the first thing. The second issue is that we can disclose exclu

Finance committee  If we had something in our holdings and if what we could see related to those operations, yes, but I will not comment on specific operations.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting us to speak with you today regarding your broader study on terrorism financing. I can assure you that we will be as forthcoming as we can with our answers today; however, I know you understand that we cannot provide classified information in th