Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Minister. It's nice to see you at the committee. My question is going to relate to the “No Money for Terror” conference. I guess you were there, alongside most of the other G7 and G20 finance ministers. Were you a signatory to the joint declara

Finance committee  It was a joint statement. I might be overstating it. The reason I ask is that the first element coming out of that conference was a priority, and I'll read it to you: (1) Further reinforcing the domestic legal and operational frameworks to collect, analyse and share informati

Finance committee  I'm not asking about that, Minister. We're looking at a situation that we heard about in London. Banks and financial institutions share information among themselves and, through JMLIT, the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce and other sources, share it with the public

Finance committee  We've heard that our partners, the other countries that were at the French “No Money for Terror” conference, are enhancing their information sharing among government departments. Bill C-59, which passed this week, detracts from relevant information sharing. Why are we going in an

Finance committee  Let's leave aside FINTRAC, because one of the things security experts say is that siloing of information often leads to money laundering or terror financing. We see information sharing in the global community and, potentially from this hearing, financial information sharing betwe

Finance committee  In your introduction you used very fiery language, and Greg quoted it. You said we should marshal every tool at our disposal. You're actually taking away a tool that agencies within the federal government needed to use to stop terrorism financing. How is it marshalling tools if