Declaration of Emergency committee  We have looked at benchmarking what other countries are doing. Canada is one of the first in terms of the coverage of crowdfunding platforms; however, in regard to payment service providers, the European Union as well as Australia already cover those entities for purposes of anti

Declaration of Emergency committee  Yes, aggregate data was forwarded to the Privy Council, which aggregated information based on what was happening with respect to the emergency measures.

Declaration of Emergency committee  It gave us an idea of the size of the amounts that had been frozen and of the total amounts in the accounts that had been frozen.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, for any broad figures, we're relying on media statements. The only numbers we received were of accounts frozen by the financial institutions themselves.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I don't recall any such comments that were made by the FIs themselves.

Finance committee  I just want to make it clear that the FINTRAC officials haven't received any form of communication from the department regarding the freezing of accounts. This type of practice isn't part of its mandate.

Finance committee  Yes, I am here. Unfortunately, no. We don't have...I think FINTRAC would likely be in a better position to know the origin of funds. Again, it gets information or transaction reports where there's a suspicion of potential money laundering, or when individuals are making large-va

Finance committee  Sure. Briefly, Isabelle spoke to this before. I think the major gaps are information-gathering gaps, and that's what we're trying to address by working on regulations that will capture crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers with a view to having a better line of sig