Finance committee  One advertisement time begets another. There is a task force with the Canada Revenue Agency to look at these very things, and I really challenge this committee to come up with some ideas like that, which we would support to bring forward. Right now there is a task force that the revenue minister, who was here at the previous committee meeting, pushed.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Well, it can be improved.

Finance committee  There is, and people do not like to be audited, but I would still go back to figure 11, where they talk about the quality of the audit and the people auditing it. That's a really good report card. The audits were less onerous than people thought. I would lean towards this: maybe there is a policy where they want to spot-check more, but I don't know what that is.

Finance committee  Thank you. We'll get on that right away.

Finance committee  That's right.

Finance committee  I think we should, and after listening we will. It's nice to be put in the same category as the Auditor General, because as far as small business goes, we're the only group that can do this type of service. I'm perceiving from the committee that it's a given, but it wasn't that in the past.

Finance committee  So obviously we should look at where there are similarities and they should go for that. We should try to identify them.

Finance committee  I think it spiked when it became an agency, because there were start-up costs, and I'm sure there were staffing issues--a lot of issues there. It's a proxy measurement. It looks at total revenues collected versus the cost to run the agency. I haven't seen any other measurements put forward, but there should be some measurements to say whether it's more efficient.

Finance committee  Right now I think it's still to be decided. I think five years may be too short a time period. Don't forget about that other agenda. That other agenda was for the revenue agency, and they do, by the way, collect revenues for the provinces, and even for municipalities down the line.

Finance committee  I don't know. I think they're more in-depth and a lot of them are the GST. The number one issue is on the GST. Yes, that was our question as well. There may be a way of simplifying this and making it shorter. Again, within the agency they may want to track that and make that one of their goals.

Finance committee  Yes, it's intermittent.

Finance committee  I'll let Corinne.

Finance committee  She's more succinct than I am.

Finance committee  Our relation, I think, is excellent. We have good access and we presented this to the entire executive a year ago.