Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate your presentation today. It certainly brings much expertise to the table.
First of all, I want to pick up on two comments, and perhaps this is as much a comment as a question. We talked about the capacity of CRA. I think Ms. Hughes indicated that we had fewer people on the job. You talked about there certainly being money out there. There are diminishing returns as you increase, and there are opportunities with new technology. I think, for the record, that the CRA's aggressive tax-planning program has doubled. The number of full-time employees working on international audits is up 44%, and an additional $30 million has been allotted to combat international tax planning. Last year we actually retrieved $1 billion in unpaid taxes.
I really appreciated when you commented that we need to achieve that balance in terms of, yes, perhaps more resources. But where is that right balance? Hopefully we are working towards making sure that we achieve that. I don't know if you have any comments.
The other comment I really want to pick up on also is that Mr. Owens said that we know that the number is big, and we know that we just need to deal with it and go after it rather than focus on a lot of quantification. Our colleague from the Bloc suggested that it's quantified. Could you talk again about the challenges of quantifying? Do you perhaps share that perspective of Mr. Owens that it's out there, it's big, and we need to proceed?