Commons Committee Urges Ottawa to Give Details on Promised Financial Crime-Busting Program

A parliamentary committee is urging the Trudeau government to provide details on a financial crime-busting program it first proposed three years ago and subsequently promised in the last two budgets. “In Budget 2022, the government announced its intention to create a Canada Financial Crimes Agency, a commitment that was reiterated in Budget 2023,” wrote the Commons foreign affairs committee in a report presented to the House on Jan. 31. The report noted that the Finance Department had also informed the committee last June that Public Safety Canada was “developing options for the potential scope and mandate of such an agency,” but no specific details have been announced since....