Canada

TECHNICAL COMPLIANCE ANNEX
activities, organized crime and other means through which threat actors resource their activities. It
also highlights the security and intelligence components of files associated with Canada’s AML/ATF
Regime.
Criterion 2.2— Finance Canada is the domestic and International policy lead for the whole
AML/CFT regime, and is responsible for its overall coordination, including AML/CFT policy
development and guiding and informing strategic operationalization of the NRA framework.
Criterion 2.3— The Canadian regime is also supported by various interdepartmental formal and
informal working-level bilateral and multilateral working groups and committees, depending on the
nature of the issues to be addressed including: NRAC; NCC; IPOC ; IFAC; TRWG, and the ICC.
To combat ML, Canada also coordinates domestic policy on the federal criminal forfeiture regime
under the IPOC. IPOC’s interdepartmental Director General-level Senior Governance Committee led
by Public Safety Canada includes: CBSA, CRA, PPSC, PS, PWGSC and the RCMP. The Committee is
mandated to provide policy direction, promote interdepartmental policy coordination, promote
accountability, and to support the Initiative.
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The NCC is the primary forum that reviews progress of the National Agenda to Combat Organized
Crime. NCC’s 5 Regional Coordinating Committees communicate operational and enforcement needs
and concerns to the NCC, acting as a bridge between enforcement agencies and officials and public
policy makers. Canada coordinates domestic AML policy on the federal criminal forfeiture regime
under the IPOC Advisory Committee and the IPOC Senior Governance Committee.
The IFAC is an interdepartmental consultative body that has the responsibility for the sharing,
analysis and monitoring of information related to ML/TF threats posed to Canada by foreign
jurisdictions or entities. The ICC assists the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
by providing the requisite analysis and considerations to inform the recommendations to the
Governor in Council regarding listing of entities.
OSFI and FINTRAC coordinate their activities through a common approach for supervision of FRFIs,
starting in 2013, by conducting simultaneous AML/CFT examinations. FINTRAC informs its
compliance enforcement strategies with findings provided by other federal and provincial regulators
in order to monitor and enforce AML/CFT compliance by REs. FINTRAC has established
17 Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with federal and provincial regulators for the purpose of
sharing information related to compliance with Part 1 of the PCMLTFA. The RCMP leads the
Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSETs) in major centers throughout the country).
INSETs are made up of representatives of the RCMP, federal partners and agencies such as CBSA,
CSIS, and provincial and municipal police services.
Criterion 2.4— Counter-proliferation (CP) efforts, including proliferation financing, are coordinated
via a formalized CP Framework created in 2013. PS chairs the Counter-Proliferation Policy
Committee, at which CP partners identify, assess and address policy and programming gaps that may
undermine Canada’s CP capacity. Global Affairs Canada chairs the Counter-Proliferation Operations
Committee, through which CP partners work together to address specific proliferation threats with a
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