Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming forward.
I think there are two purposes for our being here. First, we're trying to understand the magnitude of this, whether you want to call it tax evasion or offshore bank accounts—but basically, tax evasion is tax evasion. The way I see it, there are basically two types of tax evasion, domestic and international.
I can't believe that there is no estimate. I guess our first priority would be to determine how much the amount would be, and then after that what kinds of tools we can provide you with so that you can go after that money. I think it's a very basic philosophy of what we're trying to do here.
I can't believe we don't have numbers. We do see different numbers, whether it be from OECD-independent professors making estimates or from elsewhere. My question was going to be, how are these calculated internally? There must be an amount that you calculate. I'm sure the Department of Finance does it for the CRA.
So my question would be, how do you calculate tax evasion, whether it be domestic or international? I understand it's not going to be a hard number, because if you actually had the hard number, then you'd actually have the dollar amounts in your bank account. Isn't that correct?