Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the panel members for their contributions here today. They are certainly shedding some light on this issue.
In your notes, you spoke of a number of issues. Certainly tax fairness, I think, is the overriding objective of what we're trying to achieve. Certainly if you look at why we audit in the first place, it's to ensure that everyone who is a taxpayer in Canada can be reasonably certain that everyone, be they corporate or individual, is contributing their fair share of taxes. That's why we audit, because it is an honour system, as the chair pointed out. Ultimately we want to make sure everyone has confidence that nobody is skipping around the rules.
I was concerned about a couple of things. First of all, there are some pretty big numbers as to money that we've actually been able to pick up in additional taxes--$215 million in this recent quarter. We've also talked about how the Internet is making access to tax havens, or at least promotion of them, easier. We heard about some unsophisticated investors being taken advantage of and potentially losing capital because of the understanding that they can skip out on some taxes.
Are we just scratching the surface on this? What is your feeling on this? How big is this market? Do you have any scope or any idea of what we're really talking about?