Finance committee  The audio was cutting out, sir, and I didn't hear everything, but I'll do my best to answer the parts that I did hear. If there were monies coming in from an international organization or an individual internationally, and they were in sums of $10,000 or more, we would see that,

Finance committee  I kind of hesitate to say that FINTRAC didn't have any role at all, because we were working 24 hours a day, and we are part of the security intelligence community in Canada with the federal government. But you are correct. While the authority to register crowdfunding platforms an

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. No, I haven't seen Mr. Manchester's comments. However, with all due respect, he doesn't work within the system. That's his point of view. As far as I know, the emergency measures were implemented for a limited amount of time, not for an indefinite pe

Finance committee  Thank you for that. Mr. Chair, I hope it's not because the quality of my French was not up to par that it was unclear.

Finance committee  Really, the Emergencies Act was time limited, and it was for a specific event. For example, the information on the designated people that was given to the banks, the financial institutions and others, had to do with the funding related to the illegal blockades, to ensure that t

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. You referred to the data leaks. However, we certainly don't use that data. We haven't received a list of people who donated to the cause. Unfortunately, crowdfunding platforms are available to everyone, so anyone in the world can access them. We've h

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. No, we don't have the investigative authority. This means that we can't ask for information from the reporting entities.

Finance committee  Yes. Just about every country that's part of the Financial Action Task Force has a financial intelligence unit. With respect to your question on whether or not they do what FINTRAC does, I would unabashedly say that FINTRAC is the best in the world in providing intelligence. We

Finance committee  Thank you for that. No, we actually talk quite a bit with them. We certainly have our Five Eyes partners, of course, with whom we have a significant number of projects that are ongoing, whether they're on, for example, the tax-evasion side or the terrorist-financing side or eve

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, it almost sounds like the question is referring to an existing entity that is a not-for-profit or a charity or something like that. In those cases, they are captured by virtue of having a bank account, or, if they have a cryptocurrency wallet and they want to transfer

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, FINTRAC does not monitor transactions, nor do we have any ability to see transactions, going to any institution or any type of GoFundMe page or GiveSendGo page or any other crowdfunding platform. That is not within our mandate. We do have very good partnerships with

Finance committee  That is correct. We would expect our reporting entities to report those transactions to us if they meet their threshold for so doing.

Finance committee  Yes, unless it was a pattern of transactions below a threshold that would lead them to meet their grounds for suspicion.

Finance committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, if their suspicions and their grounds for suspicions are met. Those are not considered threshold reports, unless they're outside of Canada or coming into Canada and they're over $10,000 within a 24-hour period, or if it's a large cash transaction of $10,000 or mor

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's hard to say right now, not knowing what transaction crowdsourcing or a PSP—payment service provider—would in fact see that is not currently seen. I think time will tell, and there is some additional work we have to do in looking at and working with the