eSignature Legitimacy for Client Information for Real Estate in Canada

How to eSign a document: eSignature legitimacy for Client Information for Real Estate in Canada

massive government overreach continues to grow in Canada and of course now it's being cloaked under the guise of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism legislation but in my opinion it's just another Power grab so they can keep Better Eyes on you and keep their nose in your business and this recent expansion of the intrusion into your personal life by the government is being done by the way of alterations to something called fin Trak or the financial transaction and reports analysis Center of Canada and if you're wondering why a real estate agent like me is the one sounding the alarm well I'm going to tell you why that is right after I ask you to subscribe to the channel if you would like to stay up to date here on my local market of Sur and the Fraser Valley of BC and if you're in favor of telling the federal government to Bud out of your life go ahead and click the like button for personal privacy and of course if you find this type of real estate information fascinating you may also enjoy downloading my informative informed buyer guide totally for free using the link in the description below and now on to Trudy big government and the Men in Black tracking you and your money that you use to buy real estate okay so if you don't already know every time you buy or sell real estate with a real estate agent your agent is required to ID you and Report information including the address of the property that you're either purchasing or disposing of to the feds this is done through forementioned fin Trak and of course since F Trak is a government entity they like to do what they like to do which is expand so now when you pay a deposit us agents have to report that as well then they added another form to track if you are a potentially politically exposed person whatever the heck that means and the last time fin Trak was expanded it went so far as to have agents like me acquire your personal banking information and even the bank account numbers of which those funds are coming from but now even the original fin track form is being expanded as well and it's being expanded in a way that is profiling all participating parties in a real estate transaction in what I think is a very scary way so to highlight to you the public the ridiculous surveillance that all of your agents are required by law to do either with or without your knowledge let me show you the most recent version of this fin Trak form and stick around for the new part because this is very interesting and a little disturbing okay so here it is this is the individual identification information record otherwise known to us Realtors as fin tracking your clients now we're going to start off with the really easy stuff the transaction property address the sales representative or that would be me and my brokerage as well as the date of the information when it is being verified now for basically as long as I've been in the business we have had to fill out this information and actually physically check our client's ID for each and every transaction so obviously full legal name address date of birth occupation as well as information in regards to the ID that we check whether or not it be a passport or driver's license now already not a big deal most people are saying I'm not up to no good so who cares take my information and I kind of get that argument sometimes until of course the government starts tracking you in other ways and as we keep going down now there is a a lot of this form actually doesn't even get filled out because it has to do with things like third parties if there is a third party happening in a transaction which in my experience almost absolutely never happens and then you have to do very skill testing questions like you have to ask the person if indeed this transaction is being done on behalf of a third party or not and then just hope I guess if they are lying they're not lying to you but this is the part that I found very interesting now this was not announced to any of us agents actually my brokerage even came out on a Friday afternoon one day and said hey guys here's the new form uh we weren't told about it we have to figure out how to do it and uh how to report so there was no actual communication from the federal government to the brokerages across the country it just showed up one day but here is what it is it is now a literally a questionnaire so as you are conducting a transaction with me as your agent I have to go behind the scenes and I have to give the government this information now let me read these to you because they're going to be very very important first question prior to this transaction did you previously work with this client or have a personal relationship with them yes or no well that's a very interesting question personal relationship what does that mean I don't know am I friends with someone do I answer yes or no now it's going to be important what I want you to do is focus here quickly on these questions that we're going to go over but whether or not yes or no is the right answer to your knowledge does a client have a criminal history in regards to illegal drug trafficking bribery fraud forgery blah blah blah murder oh my goodness if you got a past history of murder and I know about it you're probably not my client but that's besides the point yes or no number three to your knowledge is there a concern about money laundering or terrorist financing in the geographic location of the property or your brokerage location what a stupid question so my brokerage and the properties I service are generally in Siri so who's going to tell me if sui is in this geographic location in concern with moneya laundering or terrorism I mean I would assume if one property is they all are if my brokerage is every transaction anyway absolutely silly this is funny does the client live within 10 kilometers of an international border or 5 km of an International Airport well if you're in the Lower Mainland of BC this is pretty much everyone so again silly I guess criminals like to be close to airports and the borders so they can cross a cross them I don't I don't know what that's all about is the client a Canadian citizen or permanent resident well right now all property that I sell is banned to be sold to a non-permanent resident or Canadian Citizen and if you Mark here unknown I think that is absolutely silly is the client a domestic PE or family member or close associate of one p is that politically exposed person uh generally speaking I think a politically exposed person is supposed to be somebody in office but they actually haven't given us a definition of exactly what a p is is the client a foreign PE or family member close associate of one so now I'm supposed to know if somebody is related to somebody who is a government uh employee or uh maybe a member of government of another country yes or no now I don't know how You' ever ascertain that information and if somebody was trying to launder money would they tell you that information is the client subject to ministerial directive applicable of North Korea going to say no I haven't sold many properties to North Koreans uh never sold a single property in North Korean so again kind of silly again this is being filled out for every single real estate transaction across the entire country are you aware of any other connection to the client and highrisk country if yes possibly explain so there is actually a level of high-risk countries I believe there are Iran again North Korea there's some African countries that are on that list again I don't know kind of silly I'm not doing many transactions with these people I do kind of understand if you had to fill this out if you felt like indeed uh you did have a client that maybe fit this profile but no I have to fill this out for absolutely every client that I deal with has the client attempted to conceal their identity in anyway I don't know why you would try and do that transaction if you're a real estate agent but okay has your brokerage previously filed a suspicious transaction or terrorist property report on this client now here's how stupid this question is how would I know that unless it was me doing it so has my brok I don't get this information for all the other clients of all the brokerage that is my brokerage McDonald realy so a stupid question that's always going to be answered no of course unless I have previously sold properties to a terrorist and I'm trying to resell them more property does the transaction seem unusual in the light of the client's occupation what does that mean I have no idea does the transaction involve a third party did you ID the client in a non-face-to-face setting hey that's a legitimate question it's probably the first one did the client provide some or all of the deposit in cash no it never happens I know they want you to believe it does trust trust me that never ever happens does the transaction seem unusual in the light of the client's past transactions with your brokerage I mean I don't know if you had somebody that was doing lots of past transactions with your brokerage and now all of a sudden they became a money launder or a terrorist after the fact I don't know it seems kind of ridiculous as well is there anything else unusual about the client or the transaction if yes please explain now you have to answer yes and no and yes and no and yes and no why do I think this is such overreach these in themselves not ridiculous questions I think most people trying to avoid moneya laundering in the business probably think these things as reasonable but let's keep going down check this out now depending on your answer that you gave yes no or otherwise uh you now get scored if you end up with a score above 10 you are now a suspicious transaction and the reporting needs to go further let's see how some of these points start to stack up where was that one question number four does the client live within 10 kilomet of an international border if yes which is almost every single one of my clients well guess what you just got two you are 1th of the way there to being a suspicious transaction and then you have 10-point questions like number 11 has your brokerage ever previously filed a suspicious transaction or terrorist property report with this client but after asking myself about you all of these questions if I do come up with a score for you at my judgment of 10 or above now it's my job as a real estate agent to take your suspicious transaction to the next level so let me conclude with this sure everyone in theory thinks this is just kind of a silly thing and of course we can say well I'm not one that this is probably going to apply to I'm probably not going to score above a 10 n whatever that is so why do I care but I want you to know that the government is tracking this information now on every single person doing a real estate transaction and it's not being done with the banks who are handling the money or the lawyers who are helping convey the properties or even a body of government rather it's being put on the shoulders of the real estate agents themselves which leads me to ask two questions one how smart is it to put the tracking of money laundering and terrorism on a profession that will profit from the transaction if that professional turns the other cheek so it's probably a massive waste of time and resources in the first place and two if this is indeed my responsibility as a licensed real estate agent here in Canada when do I get my badge and gun let me know what you think in the comments below about your agent surveilling you for justtin TR and remember to subscribe click the like button and we'll see you in a couple of days