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OTTAWA - Canada's under-funded and under-staffed police and intelligence agencies are doing their best to combat terrorist financing, but they desperately need more money and more personnel to get the job done, the Air India inquiry has heard. RCMP Supt. Rick Reynolds testified Monday that only two charges have been laid - and so far no convictions have been obtained - in the six years since federal legislation was enacted to crack down on terrorist fundraising.
Reynolds said he asked for 126 people, including support staff and intelligence analysts as well as front-line criminal investigators, when the RCMP terrorist financing unit was set up in 2001. "That was - from my position when I initially put in - what I felt our needs would be," he told the inquiry headed by former Supreme Court justice John Major. Instead he got a modest $2.8 million in funding that allowed him to take on just 17 people. Reynolds recently received word that he'll be able to add 33 more, although he couldn't give precise budget figures for them or predict exactly when the new staff will be in place.
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/09/19/4508984-cp.html