Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, committee members, for your thoughtful questions. I really appreciated them.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  I think that is a really important question to raise with FINTRAC and with police services. One of the things I can imagine the police would report is that FINTRAC would ask, “Have you taken action on a file?” The police would report back, or Revenue Canada would report back, “Ye

Finance committee  Sorry. Just in closing, I note that we have a number of provincial recommendations, about everything from policing to the crown to others, that are coming to us from Peter German. I encourage the committee, because this issue may also may also be dealt with, to get your hands on

Finance committee  I would be very concerned if it were a one-way channel of communication, just FINTRAC broadcasting with no feedback coming back from law enforcement. If that's the case, and your committee has uncovered that, I think that's a serious problem.

Finance committee  I think that the challenge, if there is one other than just the sheer number of bodies around enforcement, is the requirement for proving the index offence in order to sustain a money laundering charge. I would hope that the committee would be looking at what tools might be avail

Finance committee  I'm not in any position to advise this committee on the best technical solution for requiring beneficial ownership disclosure, but, as someone from B.C., I can tell you that you don't need a new federal system. We're going to put that information in our provincial systems. From m

Finance committee  The working definition for a supercar in British Columbia is $150,000 or more. There are a lot of pickup trucks, as I understand it, that can get up in the neighbourhood of $100,000 but are common working trucks in British Columbia, especially in rural areas. Again, I'm getting

Finance committee  We have an independent crown in British Columbia, the criminal justice branch. I don't interfere in their daily prosecution decisions.

Finance committee  Absolutely, we set policy and we also set resources. I'm in conversations with our crown to ensure that they have the resources—because some of these cases are, as you say, incredibly complex—and that they can dedicate crown time to assist police. We also ensure, as is appropriat

Finance committee  It is difficult for me to provide a national perspective for you. All I can really do is to provide the British Columbia perspective. Housing is the number one political issue in British Columbia. In the Lower Mainland, the issue is acutely connected to the fact that our real est

Finance committee  Just for clarity on the record, the recommendation comes from Dr. German, about lawyers' trust accounts; and I look forward to reading his report about why he has identified this as an issue in British Columbia. I have raised this issue with the Law Society of British Columbia.

Finance committee  Sure. I think there's a great value in expanding the number of reporting agencies, but the problem is, from my perspective, that we're not doing the basics. Anytime someone can walk a duffle bag full of $20 bills into a casino and there's no apparent enforcement response, then I

Finance committee  The issue I have is that these are all black boxes to me. I don't know what's happening inside FINTRAC. I don't know what's happening inside Canada Revenue Agency, or within the RCMP's federal serious and organized crime division. I don't know what activity is taking place there.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've changed to a later flight, so we're all right.